Kilpatrick v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Kilpatrick, while driving his motor truck, 22 feet long, from Greenway Avenue across the tracks of appellee’s trolley lines on Fifty-eighth Street intersection, received personal injuries as the result of a collision between his motor vehicle and two of appellee’s cars. He had on the truck as a guest, Carlin, a minor who was also injured. Separate actions were brought and the court below directed a nonsuit in each case which it later refused to disturb. Both plaintiffs appealed, the cases were heard together and, as the legal relations of the parties vary, we…