Sebring v. Bell Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, Nos. 70 and 71, Oct. T., 1922, by defendant, from judgments of O. P. Beaver Co., Sept. T., 1920, Nos. 135 and 136, on verdicts for plaintiffs, in cases of John Sebring v. Bell Telephone Co. and William Flesber et ux. v. Bell Telephone Co. Trespass for death of minor children. Before Baldwin, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict and judgment for John Sebring for $7,000 and for William Flesber et ux., $6,080. Defendant appealed.
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Appeals, Nos. 70 and 71, Oct. T., 1922, by defendant, from judgments of O. P. Beaver Co., Sept. T., 1920, Nos. 135 and 136, on verdicts for plaintiffs, in cases of John Sebring v. Bell Telephone Co. and William Flesber et ux. v. Bell Telephone Co. Trespass for death of minor children. Before Baldwin, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Verdict and judgment for John Sebring for $7,000 and for William Flesber et ux., $6,080. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned ware various instructions appearing by the opinion of the Supreme Court, quoting record.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
These two cases result from the same accident and will be considered together. State Highway Route No. 243 extends through Borough Township, Beaver County, in an easterly and westerly direction, of the width of thirty-three feet, and the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, defendant, has a line of telephone poles standing within the bounds of the highway, but adjoining the north line thereof. These poles support cross-arms and telephone wires strung some twenty-eight feet above the bed of the street. Upon the north side of the latter is a single track…
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