Phila. R. v. Alvord
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Chester County
No. 186 July Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 51 October Term 1886, C. P. On September 22, 1886, a summons issued in an action by Mary A. Alvord against the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, to recover damages for jiersonal injuries received, charged to the alleged negligence of the defendant company. Plea, not guilty.
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No. 186 July Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 51 October Term 1886, C. P. On September 22, 1886, a summons issued in an action by Mary A. Alvord against the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Company, to recover damages for jiersonal injuries received, charged to the alleged negligence of the defendant company. Plea, not guilty. At the trial on February 28, 1887, the only testimony as to the cause of the accident was that of the plaintiff herself and that of John Keely, one of defendant’s brakemen, and sufficiently appears in the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the close of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mb. Justice McCollum :
The defendant’s points were properly denied. The testimony of the plaintiff described conduct of the brakeman which was in violation of his duty and negligent, and which it was alleged caused the injury complained of. While her statement was uncorroborated, and was flatly contradicted, it presented a case for the jury. It was undisputed,' that in attempting to pass from the platform off the station into the car, she fell between the steps of the car and the platform.
We quote her version of the occurrence: “I was accustomed to get on the last car, on the front of…
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