Patterson v. Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 68, to October and November Term 1878. This was an action on the case, brought April 26th 1866, by Elijah Patterson against The Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad Company, for injuries to the plaintiff in consequence of the negligence of the defendants and their servants, as set forth in the offer of evidence by the plaintiff hereafter given.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 68, to October and November Term 1878. This was an action on the case, brought April 26th 1866, by Elijah Patterson against The Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad Company, for injuries to the plaintiff in consequence of the negligence of the defendants and their servants, as set forth in the offer of evidence by the plaintiff hereafter given. After the jury was sworn, the plaintiff, at the request of the court and defendants’ counsel, that he would submit in writing the evidence on which he relied, made the following offer:— “Plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The plaintiff made the following offer-of evidence, to wit: That he was employed in June or July 1869, as a conductor of freight trains on the Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad; “that he brought coal-trains down the road with other freight. That the defendants had in their use and occupation a switch, siding or branch road near the Pittsburg depot of said road, on which coal-cars were to be run out in order that the coal might be emptied on a platform, and that it was the duty of the conductor to run out coal-cars which he had brought down with his train, on said switch, siding or branch,…
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