Reeves v. Philadelphia Import Co.

McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a plaintiff’s judgment, the result of a personal injury •negligence action. The accident occurred in Philadelphia, with the suit started and tried in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The case is in the United States Courts because of diversity of citizenship. The law applicable is that of Pennsylvania. Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188, 114 A.L.R. 1487; Ruhlin v. New York Life Insurance Co., 304 U.S. 202, 58 S.Ct. 860, 82 L.Ed. 1290.

The plaintiff was a man about thirty-nine years old at the time of the…