Lacaria v. Hetzel

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

As the ground of decision in this case we quote once more the statement of the late Chief Justice Maxey in Caulton v. Eyre & Co. Inc., 330 Pa. 385, 388, 389, 199 A. 136, 138, as follows: “Backing a motor vehicle any distance unless the driver is absolutely certain there is no person in his pathway involves a risk, as countless accidents on sidewalks and elsewhere resulting from that practice attest. . . . the truck should have proceeded down the alley Avith more caution, and particularly its horn should have been sounded. The simplest, elementary…