Camp v. Allegheny County
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 166, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1917, No. 476, on verdict for defendant in case of Grace Camp in her own right and for the use of herself and her four minor children v. Allegheny County. Action in trespass for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Brown, J. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The court refused a motion for a new trial.
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Appeal, No. 166, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1917, No. 476, on verdict for defendant in case of Grace Camp in her own right and for the use of herself and her four minor children v. Allegheny County. Action in trespass for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Brown, J. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The court refused a motion for a new trial. Plaintiff appealed. . Errors assigned were rulings on evidence, the charge of the court and the refusal of a motion for a new trial. cited as to duty of nlunicipalities to erect guard…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
This suit is in trespass for the death of plaintiff’s, husband which she avers was caused by defendant’s negligence in failing to erect a guard rail along the side of a, public road. As the county road extending southerly from Coraopolis passes through Stoops Ferry it approaches the west bank of Narrows run and bends westerly and continues along on that side of the run and is known as the Narrows Run road. Three hundred feet south of the bend a branch of this road, known as the Shoustown road, turns west and extends to Woodlawn. The road between that place and…
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