Longden v. Conestoga Transportation Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

On the afternoon of October 17, 1930, plaintiff and his son, a boy seventeen years of age, were returning by automobile to their home in California from New York by ivay of the Lincoln Highway. As they approached the village of Slaymakertown, Lancaster County, they noticed a trolley car of the defendant company about a quarter of a mile ahead of them, proceeding in the same direction on a track parallel to and just off the left edge of the concrete highway, which was 20 feet wide. Their speed was 30 to 40 miles an hour, that of the trolley 15 to 20 miles an hour.…