Kehler v. Schwenk
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, July T., 1892, by defendant, William Schwenk, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., Sept. T., 1883, No. 251, on verdict for plaintiff, Daniel Kehler. Case by minor by next friend to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 13, July T., 1892, by defendant, William Schwenk, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., Sept. T., 1883, No. 251, on verdict for plaintiff, Daniel Kehler. Case by minor by next friend to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial before Sittser, P. J., when Milton M. Haas was on the stand, plaintiff proposed to ask him whether a boy of the size and strength of Daniel Kehler at the time of the accident, could have unhitched the mule from the car in any other manner than that described by the witness, to wit, by…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
First and third assignments of error. The witnesses Milton Haas and Daniel Specht, had quit-e considerable experience in driving mules on the dirt bank of the defendant, for the purpose of dumping coal dirt over the bank at the end of the dump. Haas, after saying he was employed by defendant at the colliery in question and was on the dirt bank the day of the accident, testified: “ I was acquainted with the construction of the dump car and the attachment for the mules.” He then described fully the whole construction of the car and the attachment. He said further: “…
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