Bodge v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 299, Jan. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1893, No. 348, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries.
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Appeal, No. 299, Jan. T., 1895, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1893, No. 348, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. At the trial it appeared that on Feb. 27, 1893, plaintiff walked up Seventeeth street in the city of Philadelphia, and when he got to the south side of Market street he stopped at the corner, looked up and down, and seeing no vehicle near him that caused him to expect any danger, he proceeded to cross Seventeenth street, and had more than half crossed the street when he was suddenly knocked down and run'over by a team driven…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
One of the specifications alleges error “in charging the jury that the Electrical Bureau was not a branch of the police power of the municipality, and that the city .... was answerable in damages for the negligence of that bureau.”
While said bureau neither manufactures nor sells electricity, it was conclusive^ shown that from certain grants or privileges to private citizens, corporations, etc., regulated by ordinance, it derives an annual revenue of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which it pays into the treasury of the city. In the performance of municipal duties, for…
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