Snyder v. Union Paving Co.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

In this trespass action for personal injuries the jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $2,500. The lower court however on reconsideration of the question of the right of recovery concluded that the plaintiff was chargeable with contributory negligence as a matter of law and on that ground entered judgment for defendant n.o.v. The judgment must be affirmed.

At about 7:30 in the morning of December 1, 1949, plaintiff left a passenger bus at the regular stop in the west line of Broad Street in Philadelphia just north of the driveway into the North Philadelphia Station of…