McFeeters v. Lee

Citations

• 274 Pa. 83
• 117 A. 798
• 1922 Pa. LEXIS 639

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Automobiles—Collision with wagon — Evidence-Case for jury.</p> <p>1. Where an autotruck, driven at a rate of fifteen to twenty miles an hour, approaches a switch of an electric railway, alongside of which is a small depression caused hy the sinking of a Belgian block, and the chauffeur applies the brakes, and in swinging to one side runs twenty feet and crashes into the rear of a standing wagon, twenty feet from the switch, with such force as to drive the wagon against a telegraph pole, and injures the driver thereof, the question of the chauffeur’s negligence is for the jury.</p> <p>Appeals — Statement of questions involved — Printed argument— Assignments of error.</p> <p>2. A question raised in an assignment of error, will not be considered, where it is not referred to either in the printed argument, or in the statement of questions involved.</p>