Morris v. Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad

Citations

• 228 Pa. 198
• 77 A. 445
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 453

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Damages—Nenous shock — Fright.</p> <p>1. The rule that there can be no recovery of damages for bodily or mental suffering resulting from fright unconnected with physical injury, applies where the relation of carrier and passenger exists. .</p> <p>2. The rule is applicable to a miscarriage resulting from a nervous shock to a woman occasioned by an electric car in which she was riding bumping over the track at an open switch.</p>