Valanda v. Baum & Reissman, Inc.

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

On May 15, 1939, at about one o’clock in the afternoon of a sunny day Edward Valanda, the minor plaintiff, was driving his Whippet roadster, with its top down, on a concrete state highway in an outlying unbuilt-up portion of the Borough of Dun-more, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The individual defendant, Max Reissman,, was driving a car belonging to the corporate defendant, Baum & Reissman, Inc., on the same highway in the same direction at a distance of from 200 to 400 feet behind Valanda’s car. The concrete portion of the highway was 20 feet wide and there was a 12…