Farley v. Harris
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 251, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Pbila. County, J une T., 1894, No. 366, refusing to take off nonsuit. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in refusing to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
Second street in the city of Philadelphia crosses the defendants’ railroad track by an overhead bridge, the floor of the bridge being about eight feet from the roof of the ordinary freight car. The bridge is an open iron one, about one hundred and fifty feet in length. On the afternoon of August 20, 1894, the plaintiff’s husband, James C. Farley, was driving a two-horse garbage wagon across the bridge, when his horses took fright at the whistle of a locomotive on the railroad below, and ran away; Farley was thrown out and so seriously injured that he died. The…
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