Herholtz Et Vir v. West Penn Rys. Co.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Allen M. Steaene,

These are appeals in an action in trespass by a husband and wife, plaintiffs, against a street car corporation, defendant, from the refusal to take off a compulsory nonsuit entered against them. The negligence charged was in defendant’s operation of its street car in starting the car with an extraordinarily violent jar or jolt from the car’s standing position and injuring the wife plaintiff who was a passenger.

Considering the testimony in the light most favorable to plaintiffs, the facts are as follows:

Catherine Herholtz, with her husband, boarded a…