Hazzard v. Carstairs
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 198, Jan. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., Dec. T., 1911, No. 4176, on verdict for plaintiff in case of William F. Hazzard v. Mary W. Carstairs. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Willson, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff for $8,000. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 198, Jan. T., 1913, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia Co., Dec. T., 1911, No. 4176, on verdict for plaintiff in case of William F. Hazzard v. Mary W. Carstairs. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Willson, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The jury found a verdict for plaintiff for $8,000. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, inter alia, was in refusing defendant’s motion for judgment non obstante veredicto. There was no proof of negligence on the part of the chauffeur: Downey v. Pittsburgh Rys. Co., 219 Pa. 592;…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
On April 3, 1911, at a little after five o’clock p. m., the appellee was riding west on a motorcycle on the north side of Walnut street, in the City of Philadelphia. When he was at a point about fifty feet east of Thirty-*124seventh, street an automobile owned by the defendant and operated by her chauffeur collided with him, the collision resulting in most serious injuries to him. From the judgment which he recovered for the same this appeal is before us.
At the time of the collision the appellee, was on the side of the street where he ought to have been, and it was the…
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