Pennsylvania Telephone Co. v. Varnau
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, No. 34, July T., 1888, to C. P. Lancaster Co., to review a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff in an action on the case by Anna E. Varnau and Geo. W. Varnau against the Pennsylvania Telephone Co., to recover damages for the death of a husband and father, at Feb. T., 1887, No. 105. Trunkey,'J., absent.
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Error, No. 34, July T., 1888, to C. P. Lancaster Co., to review a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff in an action on the case by Anna E. Varnau and Geo. W. Varnau against the Pennsylvania Telephone Co., to recover damages for the death of a husband and father, at Feb. T., 1887, No. 105. Trunkey,'J., absent. At the trial, before Livingston, P. J., it appeared that, bn Sept. 14, 1886, William Varnau, the husband and father of plaintiffs, was driving a two-horse wagon loaded with furniture along a turnpike over which hung a sagging wire belonging to defendants. It was alleged that the wire hung…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
An examination of this case satisfies us that none of the assignments of error can be sustained. The charge of the court and its rulings are strictly correct; the case was well tried and submitted, and the defendant has no just cause of complaint.
The judgment is affirmed.
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