Klein v. Philadelphia Rural Transit Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Drew,

Plaintiffs sued in trespass to recover damages for their son’s death. The jury returned a verdict in their favor, and the court in banc subsequently granted defendant’s motion for judgment n. o. v. Plaintiffs then appealed.

The accident occurred late in the afternoon of April 27, 1932. The sun was shining. One of defendant’s buses, thirty feet in length, was proceeding in an easterly direction along Rhawn Street, a thoroughfare twenty-two and a half feet wide, in the City of Philadelphia. Approaching the right-angle intersection of that street with Yerree Road,…