Tilton v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 289, Jan. T., 1910, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1907, No. 2,038, refusing to take off judgment of nonsuit in case of Adrian S. Tilton v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries.
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Appeal, No. 289, Jan. T., 1910, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1907, No. 2,038, refusing to take off judgment of nonsuit in case of Adrian S. Tilton v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Barratt^ J. Plaintiff testified that about 8:15 a. m. on December 9, 1907, he boarded a Haddington car in the city of Philadelphia having an aisle in the center and sat in the second cross seat from the rear; that the car was going out Girard avenue between Fiftieth and Fifty-first streets and “While I was sitting there…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Potter,
The plaintiff in this case has appealed from the refusal of the court below to take off a judgment of compulsory nonsuit. The defendant company was charged with negligence in the operation of one of its cars; and the specific act of which complaint was made was a sudden and violent stop, resulting in injury to the plaintiff. Under ordinary circumstances, with the car under proper control, when it is brought to a stop by the motorman, it is not done so abruptly as to injure a passenger, by throwing him forward against the seat in front of him. Yet that was what…
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