Thomas v. Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 143, Jan. T., 1899, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Blair Co., Oct. T., 1897, No. 5, on verdict for defendant.
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Appeal, No. 143, Jan. T., 1899, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Blair Co., Oct. T., 1897, No. 5, on verdict for defendant. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries., The facts appear by the opinion on the motion for a new trial The court charged in part as follows: The defendant denies the right of the plaintiffs to recover in this action from the defendant, for the reason that the persons in charge of the work were not its employees; and, therefore, it is not responsible for their negligence, if they were negligent. It says that it entered into a contract with Cyrus N. Stark…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
This ease was ably and correctly tried before the learned president of the twentieth judicial district. In his opinion denying the motion for a new trial the salient facts of the case, together with the principles involved, etc., are so fully set forth that little, if anything, can be profitably added in vindication of his rulings.
Plaintiffs’ request for instructions, recited in the first specification, was rightly refused, because there was no sufficient evidence of the facts of which it is predicated to justify submission of the questions involved to the jury.
The undisputed…
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