Corporation of Borough v. Neff
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county: Of January Term 1882, ¡No. 334. Case, by Barbara Neff against the corporation of the Borough of Easton, to recover damages for injuries resulting from a fall, caused by an alleged defect in one’of defendant’s highways. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Eeeder, J\, the following facts appeared: Barbara Neff, the plaintiff, was a lady sixty-eight years of age and a resident of the borough of Easton.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton county: Of January Term 1882, ¡No. 334. Case, by Barbara Neff against the corporation of the Borough of Easton, to recover damages for injuries resulting from a fall, caused by an alleged defect in one’of defendant’s highways. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Eeeder, J\, the following facts appeared: Barbara Neff, the plaintiff, was a lady sixty-eight years of age and a resident of the borough of Easton. In going to and returning from a church which she had attended for eight or more years, she was accustomed to pass across an alley.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
A refusal to enter a compulsory non-suit is not assignable for error; that has been the uniform ruling of this court, since the passage of the Act of 11th March 1836, relating to the district courts, and of the general Act of 11th March 1875, w'hich has application to all the courts of common pleas, throughout the Commonwealth: Bavington v. Pittsburgh & Steubenville R. R. Co., 34 Penn. St. 358; Pownall v. Steele, 52 Penn. St. 446; U. S. Tel. Co. v. Wenger, 55 Penn. St. 262; Mobley v. Bruner, *47759 Penn. St. 481; Lehman v. Kellerman, 65 Penn. St. 489; Ballentine v. White, 77 Penn. St. 20. There is…
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