Pollock v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Opinion by Hirt, J.,

In the early afternoon of March 23, 1937 plaintiff was driving his automobile southwardly on Fifth Street in the Oity of Philadelphia, along the southbound track of the defendant street railway company. The cartway for vehicles between the west curb and the nearest rail of the track was 17 feet wide. Plaintiff passed a southbound street car about “the length of a car or about a quarter of a square” before he entered the intersection at Roosevelt Boulevard. This boulevard intersects Fifth Street at right angles and is 240 feet wide from curb to curb with three lanes for…