Kieffer v. Hummelstown Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 4, May T., 1892, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Daupbin Co., June T., 1890, No. 416, on verdict for plaintiff, Joseph Kieffer. Trespass for personal injuries. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part as follows: “ The circumstances are what you have heard testified to by the witnesses.
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Appeal, No. 4, May T., 1892, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Daupbin Co., June T., 1890, No. 416, on verdict for plaintiff, Joseph Kieffer. Trespass for personal injuries. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court charged in part as follows: “ The circumstances are what you have heard testified to by the witnesses. As you have heard, the plaintiff was driving along the road on the 1st day of January, 1890. Now then, taking into consideration the fact of his being there with his team at that time, considering what kind of a team it was from all that you know about it…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
At the point where the accident in this ease occurred, the road was upwards of thirty-three feet in width. On the one side of the road, and next the fence, there was a long narrow pile of stones about one hundred and fifty feet in length, about five or six feet in width and about eighteen inches in height towards the road and sloping backwards to about two feet in height at the fence. The entire remaining width of the road was available for, and used as, the traveled way. It was testified that owing to the driving of heavy teams over it, loaded with stone, and for…
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