Browne v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation

OPINION BY

President Judge COLINS.

Mayetta Browne, in her own right, and as Administratrix of the Estate of Richard Browne (decedent), appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County that denied Browne’s motion for post-trial relief seeking a new trial against the defendants she named in a negligence action. A jury had found that none of the defendants had committed any act of negligence.

Decedent was killed on February 12, 2000, when he lost control of his car on a patch of ice on Sugartown Road in East-town Township, crossed into the eastbound lane, and collided with another…