Helsel v. Traction Co.

Citations

• 14 Pa. Super. 420
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 61

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Joint action by husband and wife — Measure of damages.</p> <p>The redress for injuries resulting to the wife under the Act of May 8, 1895, P. L. 54, which provides that only one suit shall be brought in the name of the husband and wife results, under the proper procedure, in a° separate verdict and judgment in favor of each plaintiff if both recover. The appellate court will not reverse if the jury, in assessing the damages, award to one party the damages which strictly ought to go to the other. In such case, the party injured is the other plaintiff, not the defendant, and if the party injured does not complain of the manner in which the jury has apportioned the damages for which the defendant is liable, the defendant can have no meritorious cause of complaint.</p>