Fisher v. Pennsylvania R.
Citations
- 126 Pa. 293
- 17 A. 607
- 1889 Pa. LEXIS 872
Syllabus
<p>1. When the record shows the actual payment of all the costs, on an appeal from an award of arbitrators, the appeal is well taken, and the subsequent alteration of the record entry as to such costs, without notice, will not affect the appellant’s rights.</p> <p>2. Where the plaintiff’s mule escaped from him, and straying upon a railroad company’s track at a public crossing, was struck by a locomotive and killed, the failure of the engineer to ring the bell and sound the whistle, as the engine approached the crossing, was not negligence on the part of the company, and the mule being a trespasser, the plaintiff could not recover.</p>
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- wherein this Court found that although portions of the medical expert’s testimony were equivocal, nevertheless, when taken as a whole, his testimony was unequivocal
- “[an] opinion expressed as a feeling or T feel that way about it’ is equivalent to saying T believe’ and ‘[consequently, [such an] answer is sufficiently definite’ ”
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Judges: Collum, Greek, Olaric, Paxsox, Pek, Williams
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