Spear v. P. W. & B. R.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERNÓN TO THE COUNT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 12 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 52 March Term 1886, C. P. No. 3. On February 10, 1886, Mrs. Flora O. Spear brought an action against the Phil. W. &. B. R. Co. and the Penn. R. Co., Robert Craven and H. F. Kenney, to recover damages for injuries resulting in the death of Adrian Spear, her husband.
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ERNÓN TO THE COUNT OF COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 12 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 52 March Term 1886, C. P. No. 3. On February 10, 1886, Mrs. Flora O. Spear brought an action against the Phil. W. &. B. R. Co. and the Penn. R. Co., Robert Craven and H. F. Kenney, to recover damages for injuries resulting in the death of Adrian Spear, her husband. At the trial on October 7, 1886, before Finletter, P. J., ' there was a verdict fox the plaintiff for $6,000. A rule for a new trial having been made absolute, the case came to a second trial on April 25,1887,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Williams :
The jury found for the defendant in the court below under the following instruction: “ I will direct you in this case, that it is your duty under the evidence to find a verdict in favor of the defendants.” This instruction is assigned for error. It is necessary therefore to understand the situation of the cause when it was given.
The plaintiff is the widow of one who was killed by an accident on a steamboat belonging to the defendants. Her husband had purchased a ticket and gone upon the boat as a passenger. Within a very short time and just as the boat was *68fairly…
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