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· 1/25/1897

Frame v. Electric Traction Co.

Citations

  • 180 Pa. 49
  • 36 A. 404
  • 1897 Pa. LEXIS 867

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Collision between car and wagon.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries caused by a collision between a car and plaintiff’s wagon, a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained where the evidence for the plaintiff, although contradicted, tends to show that the accident occurred when the plaintiff was turning his wagon from one street into another; that before turning he looked and saw no car within a square; that the car which struck him was running at a very high rate of speed, and that its gong was not rung.</p>

Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

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