Steel v. Burgess & Town Council of Huntingdon
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 267, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Feb. T., 1897, No. 6, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Bailey, P. J. It appears from the “record that this was a joint action of trespass by husband and wife to recover damages for alleged personal injuries sustained by Mary Steel by falling into a ditch claimed to be within the limits of defendant borough.
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Appeal, No. 267, Jan. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Feb. T., 1897, No. 6, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Bailey, P. J. It appears from the “record that this was a joint action of trespass by husband and wife to recover damages for alleged personal injuries sustained by Mary Steel by falling into a ditch claimed to be within the limits of defendant borough. There was evidence tending to show that that section of the street where the accident happened had been accepted by the borough and that the place had not been kept in a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Chief Justice Stebbett,
This action of trespass was brought to recover damages for *629personal injuries to Mrs. Steel caused by tbe alleged negligence of the defendant borough in not keeping Oneida and Seventeenth streets in proper repair. The defense interposed was contributory negligence on the part of Mrs. Steel, the injured plaintiff, and that the streets, at the intersection" of which she was injured, were not public streets of the borough. A considerable number of witnesses were called by the plaintiffs to prove their ease. It does not appear by the record that defendant…
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