Groner v. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 14, Jan. T., 1898, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Wayne Co., May T., 1891, No. 119, on verdict for plaintiff, Mary Groner. Trespass for personal injuries.
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Appeal, No. 14, Jan. T., 1898, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. Wayne Co., May T., 1891, No. 119, on verdict for plaintiff, Mary Groner. Trespass for personal injuries. At the trial, before Seely, P. J., it appeared that, on July 5, 1889, plaintiff and her husband were driving in an open market wagon along a public road, and that at a point in the middle of a bridge over a canal at a distance of about one hundred and thirty feet from defendant’s railroad, they stopped, looked and listened, and then drove on and their wagon was run into by a train of empty coal cars backing from the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
If the jury’s attention was not called to all the questions of law involved in this case, it was not the fault of learned counsel on either side. It appears that forty-two points for charge —fourteen by plaintiff and twice that number by defendant— were presented and fully answered by the learned president of the court. In the main, his answers appear to have been satisfactory to both parties, for tbe only subjects of complaint here are bis refusal to affirm defendant’s nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-third and twenty-eighth points, respectively, as…
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- Carroll v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1882
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