Township of West Mahanoy v. Watson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylhill county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 137. This was an action on the case by M. C. Watson against the Township of West Mahanoy to recover damages for the killing of a team of horses and injury to a sleigh and harness belonging to him through the alleged negligence of the defendant in allowing a heap of ashes to be deposited in the highway, which overturned the sleigh to which the horses were hitched, caused them to run away, and…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylhill county: Of January Term, 1886, No. 137. This was an action on the case by M. C. Watson against the Township of West Mahanoy to recover damages for the killing of a team of horses and injury to a sleigh and harness belonging to him through the alleged negligence of the defendant in allowing a heap of ashes to be deposited in the highway, which overturned the sleigh to which the horses were hitched, caused them to run away, and in their fright to get upon a railroad track, where they were killed by a moving locomotive. Plea, not guilty. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
May 10th, 1886.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff below against the Township of West Mahanoy to recover damages for the loss of his horses and injury to his sleigh, caused as the jury have found, by the negligence of the township in not keeping the public highway in a safe condition for travel. The undisputed facts are, that on January 16th, 1884, two horses and a sleigh owned by the plaintiff, in charge of his men, were being driven along a public road in said township, when, by reason of a pile of ashes which had been deposited in the highway, the sleigh was overturned and injured;…
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