Haring v. Connell
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 336, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Bucks Co., March T., 1913, No. 12, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Owen Haring v. L. M. and C. A. Connell. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Henry, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. At the close of the plaintiff’s case the court entered a nonsuit, which it subsequently refused to take off.
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Appeal, No. 336, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Bucks Co., March T., 1913, No. 12, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Owen Haring v. L. M. and C. A. Connell. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Henry, P. J., specially presiding. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. At the close of the plaintiff’s case the court entered a nonsuit, which it subsequently refused to take off. Error assigned was the refusal to take off nonsuit
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Beown,
Shortly after seven o’clock in the evening of September 4,1912, the appellant, while waiting for a trolley car to go to his home, was sitting on a wooden wing or approach to a public bridge which crossed a canal in Durham Township, Bucks County. A public road north of the approach runs nearly parallel to the canal. At the bridge it turns almost at right angles and crosses the canal. An automobile coming down this road, instead of safely making the turn at the bridge, ran into the frame approach to the same at the point where the appellant was sitting, the mud guard…
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