Ferne, Admrx. v. Chadderton

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

Because of the incongruous and wholly irregular verdicts awarded by the jury in this case a new trial must be granted.

A tractor, to which was attached a trailer-truck heavily loaded with pipe, was traveling in a southerly direction uphill on a two-lane black-top road near Free-port in Westmoreland County at about six to seven o’clock of a January night. The highway, due to a covering of snow and ice, was in quite a slippery condition. When part way up the hill the operator, Herbert Groce, started to shift gears, whereupon the wheels began to spin and the…