Mann v. Philadelphia Traction Co.

Citations

• 175 Pa. 122
• 34 A. 572
• 1896 Pa. LEXIS 1220

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Riding on front platform — Death.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for death, a nonsuit is properly entered where the evidence shows that the deceased was the only passenger upon one of the defendant company’s horse cars, that without any invitation upon the part of the driver, he took his seat upon the driver’s high stool, which was without-arms or other protection, on the front platform, and that when the car turned a switch he was thrown from the stool and killed.</p>