Highlands v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 301, Jan. T. 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Cumberland Co., Sept. T., 1902, No. 102, on verdict for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of Edward Highlands v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for the loss of property alleged to have been burnt by defendant’s negligence. Before E. W. Biddle, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 301, Jan. T. 1903, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Cumberland Co., Sept. T., 1902, No. 102, on verdict for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of Edward Highlands v. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for the loss of property alleged to have been burnt by defendant’s negligence. Before E. W. Biddle, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in entering judgment for defendants non obstante veredicto.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mestbezat,
Edward Highlands, the plaintiff, owned and occupied a farm near Leesburg, in Cumberland county. The defendant company’s road runs through the farm, and on the afternoon of January 30, 1900, the plaintiff’s barn and all its contents, with some other property on the farm, were destroyed by fire caused by sparks emitted from the company’s locomotives. The value of the property destroyed was $3,378.50, a part of which was insured for the sum of $2,100 in the Cumberland Valley Farmers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and the residue, of the value of $1,278.50, was…
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