Saunders v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 52 and 53, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1913, No. 1520, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Frances Saunders and Alexander Saunders v. Pittsburgh Railways Company. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Haymaker, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff, Frances Saunders, in the sum of $2,500, and for plaintiff, Alexander Saunders, in sum of $1,000, and judgments thereon.
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Appeals, Nos. 52 and 53, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1913, No. 1520, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Frances Saunders and Alexander Saunders v. Pittsburgh Railways Company. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Haymaker, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff, Frances Saunders, in the sum of $2,500, and for plaintiff, Alexander Saunders, in sum of $1,000, and judgments thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were the charge of the court and the rulings on evidence referred to in the opinion of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mestrezat,
We must sustain the first assignment of error which complains of the court’s action in declining to permit the appellant’s counsel to cross-examine Mrs. Saunders, the female plaintiff, as to the arrangement between her and her son relative to the monthly payment which she was to receive from him. She was a woman of fifty-eight years of age at the time she received the injuries on the defendant’s street car for which she and her husband bring this action. Her physicians testified that she was permanently injured. She testified that before the accident she was…
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