Township of Crescent v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, oE Allegheny county: Of October Term, 1886, No. 221. Trespass on the case by William Y. Anderson and Nancy Cordelia Anderson, his wife, in right of said wife, against the Township of Crescent to recover damages for injuries, sustained through the alleged negligence of the supervisors of the road of said township, in nob keeping the public road in a passable condition. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 1, oE Allegheny county: Of October Term, 1886, No. 221. Trespass on the case by William Y. Anderson and Nancy Cordelia Anderson, his wife, in right of said wife, against the Township of Crescent to recover damages for injuries, sustained through the alleged negligence of the supervisors of the road of said township, in nob keeping the public road in a passable condition. Plea, not guilty. The facts as they appeared on the trial of the cause before Collier, J., sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The defendant presented the following…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
This action was brought to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been received by Nancy Cordelia Anderson, wife of William Y. Anderson, from a defective highway in the village of Shousetown, in Crescent Township.
A small ravine, perhaps four feet deep and fourteen feet wide, crossed Main street iii the village named ; it was covered by a bridge eighteen feet in width, which was the only travel-led portion of the street at that point. On the 17th November, 1884, the plaintiff, Nancy Cordelia Anderson, came to this crossing in a spring wagon ; her father, John McKinley, sat on the front…
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