North Manheim Tp. v. Arnold
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 143 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 162 May Term 1885, C. P. On March 26,1885, -Charles Arnold and Clara Arnold, in right of said Clara Arnold, brought ease against the township of North Manheim, to recover damages for the loss of a horse, broken sleigh and harness.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. No. 143 January Term 1887, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 162 May Term 1885, C. P. On March 26,1885, -Charles Arnold and Clara Arnold, in right of said Clara Arnold, brought ease against the township of North Manheim, to recover damages for the loss of a horse, broken sleigh and harness. At the trial on May 27,1886, the material facts shown were : In March 1885, Mrs. Arnold and her sons, Nathaniel and Jonathan, on their way by the public highway to Orwigsburg, in a sleigh, crossed the Philadelphia & Reading railroad at Landingville, when…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Justice Clark :
This suit was brought by Clara Arnold to recover damages for the loss of. a horse, sleigh and harness, through the alleged *388negligence of the road supervisors of North Manheim township. The injury occurred at Landingville, in the month of March, 1885, at a point where the public road to Orwigsburg crossed the four tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. It appears that a quantity of lumber taken from the cars had been deposited in piles on each side of the public road. The piles were five or six feet high, and they so projected into the road, which was'…
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