McCormick v. Traction Co.

Citations

• 13 Pa. Super. 638
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 215

Syllabus

<p>Street railway — Negligence—Charge of court.</p> <p>Where the issue raised touching the resulting injury to plaintiff’s foot, incident to a premature starting of a street car, was that the injury was due either to improper care and treatment after the injury or to a diseased condition of the foot before and after the accident, it was not error for the trial judge to use the word “ violently” when speaking of the manner, in which the plaintiff’s foot struck the pavement on the premature starting of the car. The plaintiff’s uncontradicted evidence being that she struck the ground with such force as to sprain and injure her ankle.</p>