Neslie v. Second & Third Streets Passenger Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1886, No. 112. This was an action of trespass on the case brought by Williara Neslie and Margaret Neslie, his wife, in right of said wife, against The Second and Third Streets Passenger Railway Company, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by Margaret Neslie by falling on the step of a street ear on which she was a passenger, by reason of the negligence of the…
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county: Of January Term 1886, No. 112. This was an action of trespass on the case brought by Williara Neslie and Margaret Neslie, his wife, in right of said wife, against The Second and Third Streets Passenger Railway Company, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by Margaret Neslie by falling on the step of a street ear on which she was a passenger, by reason of the negligence of the defendant in permitting ice to remain on the step, and in permitting a passenger unnecessarily to stand in such a position on…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mercur
This was an action on the case to recover damages for an injury to the person of the plaintiff. When her evidence was closed the learned judge ordered a nonsuit, which the Court refused to take off. The question therefore now is, should the case have been submitted to the jury?
The plaintiff was a passenger in a car of the defendant. In alighting therefrom she fell and received an injury. Her complaint is that the defendant did not furnish her safe and convenient means of exit as it was bound to provide. If there was no doubt of the existence of the facts complained of, yet if there be…
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