Connor v. Electric Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 163, July T., 1896, by defendant from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1894, No. 766, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for damages for causing death of plaintiff’s husband.
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Appeal, No. 163, July T., 1896, by defendant from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., Sept. T., 1894, No. 766, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for damages for causing death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Biddle, J. At the trial it appeared that Patrick Connor, plaintiff’s bus-band, was killed on April 8, 1895, by a collision between a car which he was driving on Filbert street and a trolley car of the defendant, at the intersection of Eleventh and Filbert streets in the city of Philadelphia. Filbert street is a street extending east and west, and although it is an intermediate…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
It is evident from an examination of the testimony in this case that it involved questions of fact which were exclusively for the determination of the jury. They were fairly submitted *608to them by the learned trial judge with adequate and substantially correct instructions ; and, by necessary implication their verdict in favor of the plaintiff establishes the controlling facts upon which she relied, viz: that the negligence of defendant company’s motorman was the proximate cause of her husband’s death, and that he was not guilty of any negligence which…
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