Buckman v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 372, Jan. T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1904, No. 3,362, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Ella P. Buckman v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. Trespass to recover damages for death. Before McMichael, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The appellant’s statement of the question involved took up about one page and a half, but was printed in large type and double spaced.
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Appeal, No. 372, Jan. T., 1910, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1904, No. 3,362, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Ella P. Buckman v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. Trespass to recover damages for death. Before McMichael, P. J. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The appellant’s statement of the question involved took up about one page and a half, but was printed in large type and double spaced. It was as follows: IV. STATEMENT OF QUESTIONS INVOLVED. I. Whether the evidence as to the proper and customary place for the driver of a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
In exceeding the space allowed by rule 26 for the statement of the question or questions involved, counsel for appellant has very narrowly escaped the suppression of his paper-book and the nonprossing of his appeal, and he makes this escape only because, in the judgment of a majority of the court, the statement would not have exceeded half a page if type of ordinary size had been used and the spacing had not been so wide. The rule as to .space is mandatory, and counsel for an appellant must *355remember that they assume great risk for their client in disregarding it…
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- Ely v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis RailwaySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Rottmund v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
- Cookson v. Pittsburg & Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- Winterbottom v. Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
- Buckman v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
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- Williams v. PittsburghSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
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