Dougherty v. Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Co.

Citations

• 65 Pa. Super. 267
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 59

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Damages—Neglect to apply for medical relief.</p> <p>A working woman who was injured in the leg through the negligence of the employees of a street railroad company, while she was alighting from a car, is not precluded from maintaining a judgment on a verdict against the company for four hundred dollars where it appears that immediately after the injury, she applied the usual and simple remedies in general use by persons in her walk of life, that upon growing worse she consulted a physician five days after the accident, that her case was complicated by the fact of her having varicose veins, and that as a result of the injury her earning power was considerably diminished.</p>