Walters v. American Bridge Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 40, Oct. T., 1911, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Oct. T., 1906, No. 275, for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of John T. Walters v. American Bridge Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Shafer, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 40, Oct. T., 1911, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Oct. T., 1906, No. 275, for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of John T. Walters v. American Bridge Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Shafer, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. At the trial the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $7,500. Subsequently the defendant took a rule for a new trial, and moved for judgment non obstante veredicto. The court entered judgment for defendant non obstante veredicto, but took no action on the rule…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The accident which resulted in the injury to the plaintiff below was a peculiar one. He was crossing a county bridge over Chartiers creek, in the borough of Carnegie, about eleven o’clock at night on October 8, 1904, when he saw a street railway car coming towards him on one of the two tracks upon the bridge. He was on the track upon which the car was approaching and stepped over onto the other track when he heard a car coming behind him. He thereupon stepped up from the track onto a water main which was upon the cartway of the bridge, and, to steady himself while…
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