Moss v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

• 42 Pa. Super. 466
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 354

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Damages—Traumatic tuberculosis — Evidence.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries, where the plaintiff claims as an element of damages the development of traumatic tuberculosis from the injury received at the time of the accident, the trial judge commits no error in directing the jury not to take into consideration the tuberculosis of the plaintiff, where no evidence was offered of external injuries or internal lesion, and the physicians called by the plaintiff could not testify that the tuberculosis of which the plaintiff was suffering at the time of the trial was the result of the accident.</p>