Guckavan v. Lehigh Traction Co.

Citations

• 203 Pa. 521
• 53 A. 351
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 754

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Damages—Personal injuries — Evidence.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries, the evidence is suffioientto sustain afinding by the jury that the injuries resulted from the accident, where two physicians and other witnesses testify that prior to the accident plaintiff was a healthy, able-bodied woman, but that after the accident she aged considerably, had a nervous tremor, had lost in weight, had heart failure, and that her sufferings would be permanent, and one of the physicians stated that she had progressive paralysis of the spinal cord, and that the trouble would constantly increase, and that a concussion or blow upon the spine was the cause of the trouble he described.</p> <p>Evidence — Witness—Cross-examination.</p> <p>Where in an accident case against a street railway company, a physician testifies that he had visited and examined the plaintiff, and on cross-examination admits that he had been sent by the company, but that he was not the company’s physician, the plaintiff may show by further cross-examination that the witness had repeatedly, at the company’s instance, and as its representative, gone to examine persons hurt in accidents on its road, and that he had been so employed from time to time by the company.</p> <p>Practice, C. P. — Trial—Objectionable remarks of counsel.</p> <p>Where objectionable remarks made by counsel to the jury are not brought upon the record by affidavit and exception, they cannot be considered by the Supreme Court.</p>