Hill v. West Penn Railways Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

Elizabeth Hill appeals from the refusal of the court below to take off a compulsory nonsuit entered in an action of trespass instituted by her against West Penn Railways Company, appellee, to recover for personal injuries which she claims to have sustained while a passenger in one of its trolley cars'.

A woman 56 years of age, and weighing between 165 and 175 pounds, appellant testified that she boarded appellee’s trolley car near her home in Everson, early in the morning of December 24, 1936, to ride the mile to her work in Scottdale, as she had been accustomed…