DeWalt v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.

Citations

• 263 Pa. 236
• 106 A. 110
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 406

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Summer car — Height of running hoard — Fall in attempting to hoard car.</p> <p>A verdict is properly directed for the defendant in an action against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries caused by a fall while plaintiff was attempting to board an electric summer ear, in which the negligence charged as the cause of her injuries was the height of the running board above the street, at the point where the car stopped, where there is no evidence that the height of the running board, which was twenty-three inches, was improper or unsafe and it appeared that the plaintiff was a woman weighing 215 pounds and that her weight may have prevented her from getting on the ear.</p>