Legal Opinion

Hisak v. Lehigh Valley Transit Co.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 20, 1948No. Appeal, 36PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

Moore’s Lane is a paved black-top road approximately 25 feet in width, running north and south in Salisbury Township, Lehigh County. Plaintiff was driving his Pontiac coupe in a northerly direction on this lane in the late afternoon of April 1, 1943. As he came toward defendant’s street-car track, which intersects Moore’s Lane at right angles, he. stopped at a point six .feet south of the south rail and again when but a foot distant therefrom, he himself, in his seat' in ‘the automobile,' being then about four feet away." He says that he looked to the right…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. DeitrickSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1908
  2. Lessig v. Reading Transit & Light Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
  3. Commonwealth v. GeradeAllegheny County Court of Oyer and Terminer · 1891
  4. Reilly v. PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  5. Scholl v. Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Rivera v. Philadelphia Theological Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
  2. Stegmuller v. DavisSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
  3. Morrissey v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1970
  4. Pedretti v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
  5. Smith v. ChardakSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1981

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