Strawbridge v. Bradford
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
No. 74 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 464 June Term 1888, C. P. No. 1. On March 31,1888, Edward T. Bradford, a minor, by James W. Bradford, his father and next friend, brought statutory trespass against Justus C. Strawbridge and Isaac H. Clothier, trading as Strawbridge & Clothier, to recover damages for personal injuries caused by tbe alleged negligence of tbe defendants. Issue.
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No. 74 January Term 1889, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 464 June Term 1888, C. P. No. 1. On March 31,1888, Edward T. Bradford, a minor, by James W. Bradford, his father and next friend, brought statutory trespass against Justus C. Strawbridge and Isaac H. Clothier, trading as Strawbridge & Clothier, to recover damages for personal injuries caused by tbe alleged negligence of tbe defendants. Issue. At tbe trial on October 12,1888, the material facts developed were substantially as follows: In the latter part of 1887, the plaintiff entered the service of the defendants as a delivery boy. When…
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Mr. Justice McCollum:
There was abundant evidence to carry this case to the jury on the question of the alleged negligence of the defendants in failing to provide a reasonably safe elevator, for the uses required of the one on which the plaintiff was injured. This elevator was constructed for the purpose of carrying freight. Two sides of it were without guards of any description. It ran in an aperture the sides of which were ten and a half inches distant from the platform, and into which, at each floor, unbeveled sills projected eight and three quarter inches. It was operated by the…
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