Delaware L. & W. R. Co. v. Cadow
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. No. 90 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 233| September Term 1884, C. P. On September 9,1884, an action in case was brought by Albert E. Cadow against the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. Co., to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by tbe negligence of the defendant. Tbe plea was not guilty.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF COLUMBIA COUNTY. No. 90 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 233| September Term 1884, C. P. On September 9,1884, an action in case was brought by Albert E. Cadow against the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. Co., to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been caused by tbe negligence of the defendant. Tbe plea was not guilty. At tlie trial of tbe cause on October 6, 1886, after hearing the plaintiff’s testimony, the court, Elwell, P. J., on motion, directed tlie entry of a compulsory nonsuit. Subsequently, a rule to show cause why the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Me. Justice Williams :
The learned judge of the court below affirmed the defendant’s tenth point while refusing the eleventh. The instruction asked by the tenth point was as follows: “ If the court should be of the opinion that a pedestrian has the right to cross the highway at any point, then we respectfully ask the *572court to charge the jury that if in so doing in the night time, a cripple with a stiff leg departs from a path which he knows is safe, and ventures hastily upon one whose condition he does not know, in order to reach the same point on the opposite side of the street, he is…
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