Whitehead v. Pittsburg Railways Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 4, Oct. T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Allegheny Co., Third Term, 1907, No. 95, on verdict for plaintiff in case of William H. "Whitehead v. Pittsburg Railways Company. Tresspass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Cohen, J. At the trial the plaintiff testified: “I rose up in my seat ....
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Appeal, No. 4, Oct. T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Allegheny Co., Third Term, 1907, No. 95, on verdict for plaintiff in case of William H. "Whitehead v. Pittsburg Railways Company. Tresspass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Cohen, J. At the trial the plaintiff testified: “I rose up in my seat .... I stepped my foot forward, and there was a shock right through me, and I smelt like brimstone or some other peculiar smell in my nose, and that’s all I know. " I don’t know nothing more about it, until I was taken off the car. . . . When I became conscious, I…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
On September 10, 1906, the plaintiff, a passenger on one of the defendant’s electric street railway cars, arose from his seat to alight, and put his foot on a metal wheel cover, at the same time grasping a brass hand-hold affixed to the outside of the wooden upright or stanchion of the *84car. At that moment he received a shock of some character, either electric or mental, which knocked him senseless. Since then he has practically lost the entire use of his right leg from the foot to the groin, and has a sharply defined area of anaesthesia and analgesia in that…
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