Thatcher v. Central Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 305, Oet. T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., July T., 1893, No. 277, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Magee, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 305, Oet. T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., July T., 1893, No. 277, on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Magee, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Defendant’s points were among others as follows : “ 5. Under all the evidence in this case, if the jury believe that the direct cause of the accident was the fact that the wagon coming down the hill turned to the left just as Thatcher turned to the right, this, was negligence on the part of the driver of the wagon coming down and is not to be attributed…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Dean,
On the 12th of February, 1891, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the plaintiff, while driving with a companion in a light sewing machine wagon on Wylie avenue, Pittsburg, was run into by a cable car and very seriously injured. Wylie avenue has a very steep grade for about 600 feet from the foot of Miners-ville hill to the top. Fulton is a cross street at foot of the hill, and Arthur a cross street at the summit level. Between these are three other cross streets, Vine, Tannehill and Crawford, about 150 feet apart. Wylie avenue is about thirty to forty feet wide,…
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