Case Name: Czarniecki v. Jesse C. Stewart Company, Appellant
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1938-06-17
Citations: 331 Pa. 163
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 193
Parties: Czarniecki v. Jesse C. Stewart Company, Appellant.
Judges: Before Kephart, C. J., Schaefer, Maxey, Drew, Linn, Stern and Barnes, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 331
Pages: 163–164

Head Matter:
Czarniecki v. Jesse C. Stewart Company, Appellant.
Argued May 24,1938.
Before Kephart, C. J., Schaefer, Maxey, Drew, Linn, Stern and Barnes, JJ.
James J. Bumes, Jr., with him Gustav M. Berg, for appellant.
James J. Lawler, for appellee, was not heard.
June 17, 1938:

Opinion:
Per Curiam,
According to appellee's testimony, appellant's truck was traveling on the left side of the road, without lights. As it neared appellee's approaching automobile, proceeding in the opposite direction, the truck swerved to the proper side of the road. The rear of the truck struck the front of appellee's car obliquely.
Appellant contends that the doctrine of incontrovertible physical facts refutes appellee's story of the accident, the reason being that a collision between two vehicles proceeding in opposite directions would cause them, not to wedge together, with appellee's car being pulled completely around, as was here alleged, but to recoil. Obviously this is simply an ordinary factual question relating to the manner of the particular accident which the jury must decide. The accident could have occurred as appellee relates, and it is therefore a jury question. The doctrine of incontrovertible physical facts has no application here.
Judgment affirmed.