Goodhart v. Columbia & Montour Electric Railway Co.

Citations

• 36 Pa. Super. 441
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 181

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Passenger—Sudden start of car.</p> <p>In an action by a passenger against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries, it is not error to permit the jury to draw an inference of negligence upon the part of those operating the car, when it is shown that before the passenger acting promptly had time to reach a seat, the car was started with an unusual jerk, so violent that the ■ passenger ■ would have been thrown to the floor if she had not caught and held fast to a seat, and in doing so injured her knee.</p>