Dixon v. Pentony

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This action in trespass was brought to recover for injuries' sustained by the wife plaintiff in an automobile collision at the intersection of 17th and Thompson Streets, Philadelphia, at 11:30 P. M., December 5, 1931. A judgment was obtained by the wife for $370 and by the husband for $100.

The sole question involved in this appeal is whether Alice Dixon, wife plaintiff, was guilty of contributory negligence.

She was driving south on 17th Street. "When she had reached a point about 25 feet from Thompson Street she heard, at her left, the noise of another car coming…