Arnold v. Philadelphia & Reading R. R.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 199, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, Hannah S. Arnold, from judgment of C. P. Northampton Co., April T., 1893, No. 31, entering compulsory non-suit. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Reeder, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The plaintiff, a young married woman, having no defect of sight but somewhat deaf, while attempting to walk over defendant’s road, at a street crossing in South Bethlehem borough on October 12,1892, was struck by the locomotive of defendant’s passenger train and seriously injured. She brought suit against the company for damages, averring negligence on its part in running the train at a high rate of speed over the public streets of a town, with no warning of its approach to persons about to use the grade crossing.
The learned judge of the court below entered a…
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