Legal Opinion

Karl v. Juniata County

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 9, 1903No. Appeal, No. 27PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal, No. 27, Jan. T., 1903, by plantiff from judgment of C. P. Perry Co., Aug. T., 1901, No. 20, on verdict for defendant in case of John Karl v. Juniata County. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries.

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Appeal, No. 27, Jan. T., 1903, by plantiff from judgment of C. P. Perry Co., Aug. T., 1901, No. 20, on verdict for defendant in case of John Karl v. Juniata County. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Shell, P. J. At the trial it appeared that about nine o’clock on the evening of May 30, 1900, plaintiff drove upon a county bridge over Juniata river connecting the boroughs of Patterson and Mifflintown, and while he was on the bridge struck a pile of plank with the front wheel of his buggy, resulting in the injuries for which this suit was brought. The court charged in…

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Opinion by

Mr. Justice Bbown,

The first fourteen assignments of error in this case question the correctness of the trial judge’s rulings in the admission, rejection and striking out of the evidence. We have examined each with care, but from none of them does it appear that substantial error was committed. All are overruled without comment, for no one of them requires from us a discussion of the rules of evidence or calls for our reasons in holding that they were not violated in the rulings complained of.

The brief extract from the charge which is the subject of the fifteenth assignment, standing…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Keeley v. ShanleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Tyler v. MacFadden Newspapers Corp.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  2. Thomas v. BacheSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
  3. Smith v. SnellerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1942
  4. Fraser v. FreedmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
  5. Phipps v. Greensboro Gas Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1933

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