Supreme Court of Pennsylvania April 21, 1997, 58 W.D. Appeal Docket 1996 (Swartz v. Union Mutual Insurance)

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice.

Louis and Sarah Trout owned a forty acre farm on which they kept a 1965 model pickup truck. The truck was not registered and it had not been used on the highway since 1976. On July 28, 1993, Robert Swartz, a visitor at the Trout farm, was injured when the truck lunged forward while Louis Trout, who was working on the truck, attempted to start it.