Lancaster Avenue Improvement Co. v. Rhoads
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 119 January Term 1886, Supt. Ct.; court below, No. 64 June Term 1883, C. P. This was an action in case for negligence by John Rhoads against The Lancaster Avenue Improvement Company, to recover damages for injuries received by the plantiff.
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No. 119 January Term 1886, Supt. Ct.; court below, No. 64 June Term 1883, C. P. This was an action in case for negligence by John Rhoads against The Lancaster Avenue Improvement Company, to recover damages for injuries received by the plantiff. The defendant company was reducing the grade of its turnpike road at one point and had employed, by a verbal contract, B. M. and J. F. Shandley to do the work of grading and reconstruction for certain prices per cubic yard of grading and per cubic yard of stone. The road on one side had been graded down, the other side remaining open for travel. Tolls…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark:
The Lancaster Avenue Improvement Company is a private corporation, created in the year 1880, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a turnpike road from Fifty-second street,- in the city of Philadelphia, through the counties of Montgomery, Chester and Delaware, to a point one half mile *381west of the 18th mile-stone on the old Lancaster road, a distance of some fifteen miles. The turnpike was opened for travel sometime in the fall of 1882, and the company was after that in the receipt of tolls under its charter.
About two weeks after the turnpike was completed,…
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