Watson v. Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 130, Oct. T., 1914, by The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co., a corporation, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1910, No. 747, on verdict for plaintiff; in case of John J. Watson v. The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company, a corporation. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Frazer, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff: for $2,500, and judgment thereon.
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Appeal, No. 130, Oct. T., 1914, by The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co., a corporation, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., Dec. T., 1910, No. 747, on verdict for plaintiff; in case of John J. Watson v. The Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company, a corporation. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Frazer, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict for plaintiff: for $2,500, and judgment thereon. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were instructions to the jury, answers to points, and the refusal of the court to direct a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschziskee,
On October 27, 1909, John J. Watson, a driver in the employ of the defendant company, while working in one of the passageways of its mine, met with an injury which resulted in the loss of his left leg. In the proper and usual execution of his work, the plaintiff had located two empty cars, hauled by a mule, at a point about twenty feet beyond a switch which was used to divert cars from the track in the passageway in question to another track that diverged therefrom into an adjoining entry. When the plaintiff’s cars had cleared the switch, he kicked it, so as…
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