Supreme Court of Pennsylvania January 7, 1948, Appeals, 179 and 180 (McCarthy v. Ference)

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This proceeding is the outcome of a dreadful tragedy.

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In the gathering dusk of the late afternoon of December 22, 1942, a motor bus operated by Ohio River Motor Coach Company was proceeding towards Pittsburgh, at a speed of some 25 or 30 miles an hour, on a street in the Borough of Aliquippa called Constitution Boulevard, otherwise designated as State