Finnegan v. Monongahela Water Co.

Citations

• 54 Pa. Super. 180
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 36

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Water company — Sinking of ground in street — Evidence—• Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action by a woman against a water company to recover damages for personal injuries, the case is for the jury, where the evidence tended to show that while plaintiff was standing in the cartway of a street waiting for a street car the surface gave way under her precipitating her into a cavity at the bottom of which was a water main of the defendant; that the covering of the hole was merely the frozen crust of ground over the place where persons entered upon street cars; that a few days before defendant’s employees had made some repairs to the pipes underlying the street, and that the physical condition of the ground was such as to show conclusively that defective, negligent and careless work had been done.</p>