Biel v. Herman Lowenstein, Inc.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

Appellant, Herman Lowenstein, Inc., one of several defendants in actions under the wrongful death 1 and survival 2 statutes raises the question of jurisdiction 3 of the person in this appeal. Appellee’s decedent was killed on Angnst 2, 1961, while a passenger in an automobile on the Penn Lincoln Parkway ramp in Braddock Hills Borough, Allegheny County. A tractor hauling a trailer loaded with scrap steel ran into the rear end of the vehicle in which decedent was seated and which vehicle was stopped because of the condition of traffic.

Appellant is a New Jersey…