Stokes v. Township of Ralpho
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 154, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., May T., 1897, No. 1, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Savidge, P. J. At the trial it appeared that about 11 o’clock on the niglit of November 29, 1896, the plaintiff, in company with a young lady, was returning borne from church, driving a gentle horse with a buggy.
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Appeal, No. 154, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Northumberland Co., May T., 1897, No. 1, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Savidge, P. J. At the trial it appeared that about 11 o’clock on the niglit of November 29, 1896, the plaintiff, in company with a young lady, was returning borne from church, driving a gentle horse with a buggy. The evidence tended to sliow that the buggy struck an obstruction in the road, and was precipitated with tlie occupants and horse over an embankment. The roadbed at tlie point of the accident was about eleven…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
Plaintiff’s right to recover in this case depended on disputed questions of fact which it was clearly the duty of the court to submit to the jury for their determination. That was done in a full and adequate charge which, considered as a whole, appears to be free from substantial error. In reaching the conclusion embodied in their verdict, the jury must have found all the material questions in plaintiff’s favor; and we find nothing *337in the record that calls for a reversal of the judgment entered on the verdict.
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