Hillebrecht v. Pittsburg Railways Co.

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 204
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 343

Syllabus

<p>Street railways — Passengers—Attack on passenger by fellow passenger.</p> <p>1. A carrier is not liable for injuries to a passenger resulting from the negligent or unlawful acts of a fellow passenger, unless prior to the act which causes the injury the conduct of the offending party has been such as to give rise to a reasonable apprehension of injury to others.</p> <p>2. A street railway company eannot be held in damages for injuries to a passenger struck by another passenger where it appears that but one blow was struck and this blow was struck suddenly and without warning by a passenger who up to that moment had been quiet and orderly and who had had no altercation with the person he struck.</p>