Zieger v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

Plaintiff alleged that while walking to a seat after boarding one of defendant’s cars he was thrown to the floor and injured by a violent jolt due to the negligence of defendant’s employees in the operation of the car. He brought this action of trespass and recovered a verdict. The court later entered judgment for the defendant non obstante veredicto. Plaintiff appealed and assigns this action as error.

In his account of the event plaintiff said “the car all of a sudden jerked.......It started up all of a sudden, with a jerk, and stopped all of a sudden, and that threw me…