Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county: Of May Term 1880, No. 106. Trespass on the case by Harman Anderson against the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by reason of the negligence of defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county: Of May Term 1880, No. 106. Trespass on the case by Harman Anderson against the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company, to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been received by reason of the negligence of defendant. The declaration averred that Anderson on the 4th of October 1877 was a passenger in the cars of the defendant company; that while passing over the line of the Pickering Valley Railroad, which was leased and operated by the defendant, he was injured by the car in which he was riding being thrown from the track in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
As those rulings of the court below' which put the burthen of proof upon the defendant, plaintiff in error, have been treated in the argument in this court as of primary importance, we will first examine and dispose of the exceptions to them. These exceptions are numbered, respectively, 14, 15, 16 and 17, and the rulings of which they complain may be summed up as follows: that where for a consideration a railroad company undertakes to transport a passenger from one point of its line to another, there arises an implied contract, upon part of the company, that it has, for that purpose, provided…
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