Schweinberg v. Irwin

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

March 31, 1951, was an ideal Spring day in Mun-hall, Pennsylvania. The skies were clear, the snn shone and children played on the streets. On McKinley Street, which runs east and west, a basketball game was being played with all the enthusiasm and freedom of a game unfolding in a gymnasium. Some 15 boys ran, leaped and pitched the ball at an improvised basketball hoop fastened to a telegraph pole. In the midst of their sport a Plymouth Sedan approached from the east. The boys halted the game, divided and moved to either side of the highway to let the motorist…