Sowash v. Consolidated Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 70, Oct. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgments of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1897, Nos. 225 and 226, on verdicts for plaintiffs. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Kennedy, P. J. At tbe trial it appeared that Mary Sowasb, wife of J. F. Sowash, was a passenger on one of defendant’s cars about seven o’clock in the evening of October 1, 1896. After alighting from the car of the front platform, she took a few steps, fell and sustained, injuries.
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Appeal, No. 70, Oct. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgments of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., Feb. T., 1897, Nos. 225 and 226, on verdicts for plaintiffs. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Kennedy, P. J. At tbe trial it appeared that Mary Sowasb, wife of J. F. Sowash, was a passenger on one of defendant’s cars about seven o’clock in the evening of October 1, 1896. After alighting from the car of the front platform, she took a few steps, fell and sustained, injuries. At the place where the accident occurred the defendant company was reconstructing its tracks with a view of changing the mode…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
In the court these were two cases consolidated into one and tried at the same time and before the same jury, the plaintiffs being husband and wife. There was evidence that the motorman opened the front door of the car and invited Mrs. Sowash to leave the car from the front platform. She testifies that she followed his direction and descended to the gronnd from the steps of the front platform. The ground was broken and the night was dark, and the plaintiff testifies that within a very few steps she caught her foot in some way and fell to the ground and sustained her injuries. As…
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