Gensemer v. Conestoga Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 134, Jan. T., 1911, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., March T., 1910, No. 18, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Mary A. Gensemer v. Conestoga Traction Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Hassler, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Verdict for plaintiff for $2,100 and judgment thereon. Error assigned was refusal to direct verdict for the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The appellee, a woman over seventy years of age, was injured while attempting to alight from a car of the defendant company. She boarded it in the city of Lancaster, for the purpose of going to a graveyard two or three miles distant. She notified the conductor that she wished to get off at the graveyard, where there was a usual stopping place with a platform upon which passengers could alight. Instead of stopping, there, the car ran about sixty feet beyond, and where it stopped there was a ditch on the side of the track upon which the appellee wished to alight. She…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Brooks v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1907
3Cited by1 opinion
- Hager v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1918