Scibilia v. Philadelphia
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 312, Jan. T., 1924, by plaintiff, from judgment of Superior Court, Oct. T., 1923, No. 292, reversing judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., June T., 1921, No. 449, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Guiseppe Scibilia v. City of Philadelphia. Appeal from judgment of Superior Court: 82 Pa. Superior Ct. 328. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Judgment of common pleas reversed. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was, inter alia, judgment, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,
In compliance with the spirit of rule 56 of this court, counsel “substituted for the notes of testimony” an agreed statement of facts, which shows that, on May 4, 1921, plaintiff, Guiseppe Scibilia, while standing at the side of a street in Philadelphia, was injured by “an automobile truck, the property of the city,......loaded with ashes, and operated by one of the employees of the Bureau of Street Cleaning of the Department of Public Works,” the vehicle being engaged at the time in conveying the ashes from a “centralization plant” of the municipality…
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