Greenwood v. Union Traction Co.

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 488
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 106

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Cross-examination—Residence—Citizenship.</p> <p>Where a plaintiff in an accident case has been permitted to show his residence, he may be asked on cross-examination whether he is a citizen of the United States.</p> <p>Negligence — Street railways — Damages—Punitive damages — Pushing pas-, senger from car.</p> <p>Where the conductor of a street railway car without previous ill will, and without unkind words declines to receive an intoxicated man as a passenger, and when the latter attempts to board the car, pushes him on the breast so that the man falls from the car and is injured, the street railway company is liable for compensatory, but not punitive damages.</p> <p>The recovery of exemplary damages from a master for injuries inflicted by the servant, which the master neither authorized nor approved, is not to be permitted except in a very clear case. Such damages are allowed only where the act complained of has been committed willfully and maliciously, or, in the absence of actual malice, where it has been committed under circumstances of violence, oppression, outrage or wanton recklessness; in the absence of proof of these circumstances of aggravation, compensation merely is the rule. __ .</p>