Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 14, 1955, Appeals, 23, 24, 30 and 31 (Edmondson v. McMullen)

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

On January 30, 1951, at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the wife-plaintiff in this ease, Mrs. Arlene Edmondson, was standing at the corner of 13th Street and 13th Avenue in Altoona when a truck hurtled over the pavement, climbed the curb, sheared from its embedded and bolted pedestal a cast iron lamp post 5 inches in diameter and pinned her against a stone wall,