Picard v. Ridge Avenue Passenger Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 307, Jan. T., 1891, by plaintiff, from judgment of nonsuit by C. P. No. 1, of Phila-. delphia Co., Sept. T., 1887, No. 250. Trespass by Sylvan Picard against tbe Ridge Avenue Passenger Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial before Biddle, J., the court entered a compulsory nonsuit, which it subsequently refused to take off.
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Appeal, No. 307, Jan. T., 1891, by plaintiff, from judgment of nonsuit by C. P. No. 1, of Phila-. delphia Co., Sept. T., 1887, No. 250. Trespass by Sylvan Picard against tbe Ridge Avenue Passenger Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial before Biddle, J., the court entered a compulsory nonsuit, which it subsequently refused to take off. Error assigned was the refusal to take off the nonsuit. cited Stager v. Pass. Ry. Co., 119 Pa. 74; Sanford v. Hestonville etc. Ry. Co., 136 Pa. 92; Fisher v. Ry. Co., 131 Pa.…
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Curiam,
We are of opinion that the plaintiff was properly nonsuited by the court below. According to his own statement he had no case. He says in his testimony: “I was standing at the look-out corner of Twenty-first and Ridge road, when the car came down the Ridge, and I signaled the driver to stop. He stopped the car. By the time it came to me it had a little speed, but was moving so little that it would not be noticed. I was facing the left hand side of the car coming down, placed my left hand on the hand-rail and my right foot on the step, when I heard the brake go off, and before I had…
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