Jagger v. People's Street Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 218, Jan. Term, 1896, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., March, T. 1894, No. 532, refusing to take off nonsuit. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Archbald, P. J. At the trial it appeared that on November 12, 1892, plaintiff was injured while alighting from the rear platform of an electric street car in the city of Scranton.
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Appeal, No. 218, Jan. Term, 1896, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., March, T. 1894, No. 532, refusing to take off nonsuit. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Archbald, P. J. At the trial it appeared that on November 12, 1892, plaintiff was injured while alighting from the rear platform of an electric street car in the city of Scranton. The plaintiff was in the habit of leaping from the cars on his way home from work at a point where they did not ordinarily stop. It appeared that the conductor and motorman at a signal from the plaintiff would slow the ear down to about…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The plaintiff, in going from the business part of the city of Scranton to his home, used the defendants’ line of cars. To shorten his walk, he was in the habit of leaping from the cars at a point where they did not ordinarily stop, from which point he walked to his home. It is alleged that the conductor and motorman knew of this habit and at a signal from him would slacken the speed of the car down to about four or five miles per hour in order to relieve him from the dangers incident to this mode of alighting as much as they reasonably could. The company was not bound by this…
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