Stubbs v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 73, Oct. T., 1917, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., No. 544, July T., 1915, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Edward J. Stubbs v. Kate M. Edwards. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Coi-ien, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. At the trial the court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was the refusal to take off the nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justioe Walling,
This is an action of negligence for injuries sustained in a collision on a highway. On May 1, 1914, plaintiff *77was going easterly on the right side of Grant Boulevard, Pittsburgh, on his two-seated motorcycle, with a companion on the rear seat, and they were from ten to twenty feet behind an automobile which they were following. They came up with a funeral procession of carriages, going in the same direction, to pass which the automobile and motorcycle bore to the left; while opposite the procession, the automobile came to a sudden stop, and plaintiff, to avoid…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Snyder v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
- Brunner v. Blaisdell Bros.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Christner v. Cumb. etc. Coal Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Somerset County1892
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- Lane v. E. A. Mullen, Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1925
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