Baron v. Wilkes-Barre Railway Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 41, March T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne County, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Jacob Baron and Lillie Baron v. Wilkes-Barre Railway Company. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Carman, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The jury found a verdict of $811.75 in favor of the plaintiff, Jacob Baron, and of $905.90 in favor of the plaintiff, Lillie Baron, upon which judgments were entered. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 41, March T., 1918, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Luzerne County, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Jacob Baron and Lillie Baron v. Wilkes-Barre Railway Company. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Carman, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The jury found a verdict of $811.75 in favor of the plaintiff, Jacob Baron, and of $905.90 in favor of the plaintiff, Lillie Baron, upon which judgments were entered. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned, among others, were answers to defendant’s points, quoted in the opinion of the Superior Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Porter, J.,
The plaintiffs brought this action of trespass to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by Mrs. Baron when alighting from a car of the defendant company. They recovered verdicts and judgments in the court below and the defendant appeals. Mrs. Baron testified that she had, about eight o’clock on the evening of September 8, 1913, in company with her child and a niece, taken an open summer car of the defendant company, with a running board along the entire side, which she had difficulty in mounting because of its height from the ground, and ridden to Miner’s Mills…
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- Keator v. Scranton Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Beck v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
- Scanlon v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Mahoney v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1906
- Sligo v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
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- Pierce v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948