Hunger v. LaBarre

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

Appellant contends that the lower court erred in awarding the appellee a new trial on the ground that the trial judge improperly instructed the jury on the question of contributory negligence.

On December 7, 1968, the Appellant, George F. LaBarre, was proceeding in his automobile along East Susquehanna Street in Allentown. When the appellant’s vehicle reached a point two hundred feet east of the intersection of East Susquehanna and South Franklin Streets, the right front comer of his car came into violent contact with a pedestrian, appellee’s decedent Marcus Hunger. As a…