Sieb v. Central Pennsylvania Traction Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 1, March T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., Sept. T., 1908, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Heinrich Sieb v. Central Pennsylvania Traction Company. Trespass to recover damages for the death of plaintiff's son. Before Shull, P. J., specially presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,000. Defendant appealed. Error assigned was in submitting the case to the jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The plaintiff’s son was killed in a collision of a car of the *230defendant company with a wagon in which the young man was riding. A verdict of $1,000 was recovered as damages. Carl Sieb, the son,- was about twenty-five years of age. He employed John Schmidt, a drayman or expressman residing in Steelton, to take him, with his trunk, to a Harrisburg railway station where he intended to take passage for the. west. Schmidt called for the trunk at the boarding house of young Sieb at half past five o’clock in the morning, and they started for Harrisburg, in an open box or coal…
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- Gilmore v. Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Little v. Central District & Printing Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
- McMahen v. WhiteSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
- Dryden v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
- Floyd v. Philadelphia & Reading R. R.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
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