Schiele v. Motor Freight Express, Inc.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Hughes,

These appeals are taken from the refusal to grant a new trial or to enter judgment non obstante veredicto. On the morning of October 26, 1940, about 7:30 a.m., a coal truck owned by John Olivia and driven by his employee, Thomas Pagano, attempted to pass a two-ton G. M. O. truck owned by Harold Levan and driven by his employee, Ernest Schiele. Claude Parsons, another employee of Levan, was riding in this truck. Both these trucks were traveling easterly from Reading toward Boyertown over a 16-foot concrete highway which had shoulders four feet wide. The atmosphere…