Van Winckler v. Morris

Citations

• 46 Pa. Super. 142
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 248

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Automobiles—Excessive speed — Skidding.</p> <p>Where a person in driving an automobile on a slippery asphalt pavement straddles a street car rail, and suddenly turns his car with such speed that a wheel catches in the rail, and the whole body of the car skids across an intervening space of eighteen feet over the curb and onto the pavement, and strikes and injures a woman standing on the pavement two feet inside the curb, the owner of the car will be responsible for the injuries sustained by the woman.</p>