Lightcap v. Philadelphia Traction Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
At Law. On motion for new trial. Action by John A Lightcap against the Philadelphia Traction Company for negligence. There was verdict for plaintiff, and defendant seeks a new tidal.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
This is an action for the recovery of damages for personal injury sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of a wagon in which he was driving having been struck by a cable car of the defendant at the intersection of Market street and Eleventh street, in the city of Philadelphia. The cause having been tried, and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff for $5,000, the defendant moved for a new trial, and that motion has been argued and considered. Seven reasons have been assigned in support of (lie motion. The first three are that the verdict was against the law, the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. BaughSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Gilmore v. Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- Steiner v. Phila. Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
- Lott v. Frankford & Southwark Pass. R. R.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
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- Dong Chong v. Honolulu Rapid Transit & Land Co.Hawaii Supreme Court · 1904
- Austerlade v. Chicago City Railway Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1914