Ledig v. Germania Brewing Co.

Citations

• 153 Pa. 298
• 25 A. 870
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1095

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Fall of beer barrel from wagon on passer-by.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for personal injuries caused by a beer barrel falling from defendant’s wagon upon plaintiff, it is proper to submit the ease to the jury where there is evidence, though contradicted, that the wagon was overloaded, and that defendant’s driver in turning from the car track on which lie was driving “ at a pretty good gait ” gave his horses a crack with his whip, and by that, swung the hind part of the wagon into the curbstone, causing one of the barrels to fall upon plaintiff.</p>