Legal Opinion
Bitting v. Township of Maxatawny
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 5, 1896No. Appeal, No. 250PublishedCited by 14 opinions
Appeal, No. 250, Jan. T., 1896, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., May T., 1895, No. 87, on verdict for defendant. Trespass for death of husband. Before Endlich, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
The facts of this case are stated by the learned judge of the court below thus:
“ This is a suit by a widow to recover damages for the death *215of her husband, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant.
“ Forming part of one of the highways of Maxatawny township, a stone bridge about nineteen feet in width and twenty-six feet in length crosses a mill race sixteen feet wide, the distance between the top of the bridge and the bottom of the stream being four feet six inches. There are no guard rails at the sides of the bridge. On the evening of November…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Yoders v. Amwell TownshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Trexler v. Greenwich TownshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
3Cited by14 opinions
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- Sorber v. MastersSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1919
- Goldstein v. East Fallowfield TownshipSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
- Boone v. Township of East NorwegianSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Habecker v. Lancaster TownshipSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
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