Rosevere v. Borough
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 63, Jan. T., 1895, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Clearfield Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 594, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained upon a defective sidewalk.
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Appeal, No. 63, Jan. T., 1895, by-defendant, from judgment of C. P. Clearfield Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 594, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained upon a defective sidewalk. Before Gordon, P. J. At the trial plaintiff claimed that on Sept. 9, 1890, she stepped through a hole in a sidewalk in the borough of Osceola and that her left foot sank under the level of the sidewalk ten inches, by reason of which she was thrown down with great violence, and her body and left leg were permanently injured. A number of witnesses…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Green,
After a most close and patient reading of the charge of the learned court below and the answers to points, in the light of the criticisms made in the several assignments of error, we are quite unable to discover the least cause for reversal upon any of the specifications. The legal principles applicable to the facts in evidence, were stated and presented by the court with such entire correctness and fairness that not a single assignment is made to any part of the charge in that regard. The case involved nothing but matters of fact and was exclusively for the…
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