New Castle v. Kurtz
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 157, Oct. T., 1904, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1902, No. 74, on verdict for defendant in case of City of New Castle v. Julia Maria Kurtz and Mary E. Clark et al. Trespass to recover the amount of a verdict rendered against plaintiff in an action for personal injuries. Before Wallace, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict for defendants by instruction of the court.
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Appeal, No. 157, Oct. T., 1904, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1902, No. 74, on verdict for defendant in case of City of New Castle v. Julia Maria Kurtz and Mary E. Clark et al. Trespass to recover the amount of a verdict rendered against plaintiff in an action for personal injuries. Before Wallace, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. Verdict for defendants by instruction of the court. Judgment was entered on the verdict. jError assigned was in directing a verdict for defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Thompson,
This was an action by the appellant to recover, from the appellees the amount of a verdict that it was by suit compelled to pay to a person who had been injured by a fall caused by a ridge of ice formed in front of and upon the pavement of the properties owned by the appellees and occupied by tenants. The liability of the appellant in that action sprang from the actual notice to it, of the dangerous condition of the ice upon the pavement and after such notice its neglect to remove it. The proof there was that its street commissioner had express notice of the…
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