Houston Bros. v. Consolidated Traction Co.

Opinion by

Porter, J.,

The plaintiffs brought this action to recover damages for the killing of two horses, the breaking of a wagon and the sewer pipe with which it -was loaded, which resulted from a collision with'one of the cars of the defendant'company. The court below entered a compulsory nonsuit; which it subsequently refused to take off.

The accident occurred on Butler street in the city of Pitts-burg, at the point where Forty-ninth street enters that thoroughfare from the north, opposite the Allegheny Cemetery. There was no evidence that the vehicle traffic in the street was heavy or…