Morris v. Keystone Telephone Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 108, Oct. T., 1912, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., June T., 1910, No. 1,303, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Mary Morris, by her husband and next friend Lincoyer Morris, and Lincoyer Morris v. Keystone Telephone Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Carr, J. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,500. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in refusing motion for judgment for defendant n. o. v.
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Cueiam,
The single question raised by the assignments of error is, as correctly stated by appellant’s counsel, whether the plaintiff produced sufficient evidence that she received an electric shock from the defendant’s telephone instrument, and that such shock was the cause of the harm of which she complains, to justify the trial judge in submitting the case to the jury. She testified to receiving an electric shock which went through her body when she was using the telephone, and she described the way it affected her at the time and afterwards. The case could not have been withdrawn from…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Devlin v. Beacon Light Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
- Whitehead v. Pittsburg Railways Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1911