County of Lehigh v. Hoffort
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
No. 148 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below No. 1 January T. 1884, C. P. The suit below was in case for Negligence by Annie M. Hoffort against the county of Lehigh. On the trial it was shown that in 1834 a county bridge was erected six hundred feet long across the Jordan Creek and Meadows at Allentown, Lehigh county. Allentown was then a village, all on the western side of Jordan Creek; now it is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants occupying both sides of said creek.
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No. 148 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below No. 1 January T. 1884, C. P. The suit below was in case for Negligence by Annie M. Hoffort against the county of Lehigh. On the trial it was shown that in 1834 a county bridge was erected six hundred feet long across the Jordan Creek and Meadows at Allentown, Lehigh county. Allentown was then a village, all on the western side of Jordan Creek; now it is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants occupying both sides of said creek. The bridge was twenty-six feet in width, a passenger railway occupying eight feet on one side, a foot-walk of four feet in…
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Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark :
On the 5th day of October, 1883, the plaintiff, whilst passing over the bridge across Jordan creek and meadows in the city of Allentown, was caught by the wheel of a wagon drawn by a runaway team of horses, and injured. The bridge is about six hundred feet long and twenty-six feet wide; the City Passenger Railway occupying eight feet on one side, the wagon road fourteen feet on the centre, and the footwalk four feet on the other .side. It is. a stone structure, and is conceded to have been originally constructed and since maintained as a county bridge. The plaintiff…
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