Brader v. Township of Lehman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 13, Jan. T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne Co., Dec. T., 1904, No. 16, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Samuel Brader V.- Lehman Township. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Halsey, J. The facts relating to the accident are set forth in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $848. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in refusing binding instructions for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The accident which resulted in the injury to plaintiff occurred on a little used lateral road, leading from one more traveled road to another, in- a mountainous region. • The part of the road where the accident occurred is for some distance located over a very stony piece of ground, or, as the .plaintiff described it, a “fearfully stony piece of ground,” the. ground on each side of the road being about at the same level with the highway. One of the witnesses of the plaintiff thus described the region through which the road was located: “ it is all rocks pounded up; you…
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