MacLeay v. Beckwith MacHinery Co.

Opinion by

Kellee, P. J.,

The wife plaintiff in this action, while walking across Oakwood Street in the City of Pittsburgh, was run into and injured by the defendant’s automobile, which was being negligently operated by its employee. She and her husband brought this action of trespass and recovered verdicts against the defendant of $500 for the wife and $3,000 for the husband. The husband’s verdict was subsequently reduced, by remittitur filed, to $2,500, and judgments were entered for the respective plaintiffs. Defendant appealed from the order of the court below discharging its rule for a new…