Bilotta v. Media, Middleton, Aston & Chester Electric Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 218, Jan. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Delaware Co., June T., 1905, Ho. 94, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Guiseppe Bilotta v. Media, Middleton, Aston & Chester Electric Railway Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Yerdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,548.25. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 218, Jan. T., 1907, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Delaware Co., June T., 1905, Ho. 94, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Guiseppe Bilotta v. Media, Middleton, Aston & Chester Electric Railway Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. The circumstances of the accident are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Yerdict and judgment for plaintiff for $1,548.25. Defendant appealed. Error assigned among others was answer to defendant’s tenth point, both point and answer being quoted in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stewart,
The plaintiff boarded a car of the defendant company at Chester to go to a point on its Media line beyond the intersection at Folsom. It so happened that about an hour before, a large tree, uprooted by a storm, had fallen across the track and the public road alongside, at a point between Chester and Folsom, temporarily preventing through travel in the same car. To meet conditions existing while the work of removal was going on, the company ran its cars from Chester to the place of obstruction, then back again to Chester; and in the same way ran the cars from…
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