Oakland Railway Co. v. Fielding
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case by John Fielding against The Oakland Railway Company, to recover damages for injury sustained by his minor son, alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant in not keeping Third street, in the city of Pittsburgh, over and along which the track of their railroad is laid, in good and proper repair.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case by John Fielding against The Oakland Railway Company, to recover damages for injury sustained by his minor son, alleged to have been occasioned by the negligence of the defendant in not keeping Third street, in the city of Pittsburgh, over and along which the track of their railroad is laid, in good and proper repair. The material facts were these; — On the night of the 10th of April 1863, about nine o’clock in the evening, there was an alarm of fire in the lower part of the city, and some members of the Duquesne…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
— We have looked attentively through the *328answers of the court to the several propositions submitted, and we detect no error whatever in any of them. Indeed, it seems to us that the charge presented the case to the jury with great clearness and precision.
The first error assigned was not pressed, and in view of the proofs it was well abandoned.
The second error assigns the language of the plaintiff’s seventh point rather than that of the court. The concluding sentences of the charge furnished the rule of damages in terms less exceptionable…
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