Peterson v. Marianna Borough

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

This is an appeal from judgment in favor of the defendant upon the whole record, entered by the court of common pleas in an action of trespass brought to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband. Plaintiff claims her husband’s death resulted from injuries sustained in falling at 9 p. m., January 29, 1930, through a hole in a footbridge which he says was negligently maintained by the defendant.

In 1916 the Union Coal and Coke Company acquired title to a large tract of land wholly situate in Marianna Borough. In 1924 the Union Company conveyed this tract…