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· 7/11/1894

Kreider v. Lancaster, Elizabethtown & Middletown Turnpike Co.

Citations

  • 162 Pa. 537
  • 29 A. 721
  • 1894 Pa. LEXIS 1013

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Turnpike — Evidence—Contributory negligence — Presumption.</p> <p>In an action against a turnpike road company to recover damages for personal injuries, it is proper to submit the case to the jury where there is evidence that plaintiff, on a dark night while traveling on defendant’s road, drove over an embankment in the road at a point where a summer road was depressed from two to four feet below the level of the macadamized portion of the turnpike.</p>

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  • declaratory judgment not precluded when petition for review did not constitute appeal from prior order

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Judges: Fell, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

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