Stewart Et Vir v. Pittsburgh

Opinion by

Reno, J.,

Appellants, husband and wife, brought trespass to recover damages for injuries resulting from a fall sustained by wife plaintiff upon a public stairway maintained by defendant. The verdicts were for plaintiffs, but the court below entered the judgments n. o. v., from which these appeals were taken, in the belief that the evidence demonstrated as a matter of law the contributory negligence of wife plaintiff, hereinafter called plaintiff. In view of the verdicts, the record must be considered in the light most favorable to appellants, and oral testimony adverse to the theory…