260 Pa. 418 | Pa. | 1918
Opinion by
This is an appeal by plaintiff from judgment of compulsory nonsuit- in an action for personal injuries sustained in a collision of automobiles. We state the facts in accord with plaintiff’s evidence. The west end of Osage avenue intersects Forty-seventh street, Philadelphia. On the evening of January 29, 1917, plaintiff was driving an automobile north in said street and, when about two hundred and fifty feet from such intersection, saw defendant’s coal truck coming rapidly west on Osage
The trial court, however, granted a nonsuit, on the assumption that as matter of law plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. This in our opinion was error. Plaintiff was on the proper side of the street with his car under control and stopped before he came to the intersecting avenue. He had a right to assume that defendant’s truck would come to the crossing at moderate speed and under control, as it should have done: McClung v. Penna. T. Cab. Co., 252 Pa. 478. No man is bound to anticipate the negligence of another: Wagner v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., 252 Pa. 354. Because the truck was moving rapidly when five hundred feet away did not show th,at it would continue to do so to the end of the avenue. Plaintiff knew it must turn north or south at Forty-seventh street, but he did not know
The judgment is reversed with a procedendo.