Shipley v. Pittsburgh

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

The judgment cannot be sustained. The plaintiff, a guest in an automobile, was injured when the car crashed through a defective railing on Heth’s Eun Bridge, a part of a city street in Pittsburgh carrying a public highway over a deep gully. It became necessary for the driver of the car to avoid colliding with another car that suddenly stalled in front of it on the bridge; she attempted to avoid it by passing around it, but, by some mishap, crossed the center line of the bridge and “the left half of the road, mounted a five inch curbstone on the bridge” and proceeded…