Rife v. Middletown
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 3, March T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., March T., 1904, No. 269, on verdict for plaintiff in case of John W. Rife and Jacob E. Rife v. Middletown Borough. Trespass to recover damages for injuries from water.
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Appeal, No. 3, March T., 1906, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Dauphin Co., March T., 1904, No. 269, on verdict for plaintiff in case of John W. Rife and Jacob E. Rife v. Middletown Borough. Trespass to recover damages for injuries from water. Before Weiss, P. J. The court charged in part as follows: It is also said that an unusually high flood last March was the cause of the water backing from the river up the channel, tip the creek, where this water was accumulated and flowed against and through that tunnel across Lawrence street and up the stream, and that its swirling then and its…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Beaver, J.,
No exceptions seem to have been taken to the rulings of the court complained of in the second, fourth, seventh, eighth and twenty-second assignments of error. They are, therefore, not properly before us and may be disregarded in the consideration of the case. Inasmuch, however, as the same questions are raised by the other assignments of error, the case, as presented by the appellant, will be fully considered.
The first, third, fifth, sixth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth assignments of error raise practically the same question.
'■ The statement sets forth the…
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