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· 1/23/1893

Sandford v. Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Pass. Ry.

Citations

  • 153 Pa. 300
  • 25 A. 833
  • 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1096

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Infants—Street railways.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company for personal injuries to a boy eight years old, the case is properly submitted to a jury where there is evidence that the boy was upon the front platform of a car, and while there a dispute arose between him and the conductor about a transfer ticket, that the conductor approached the boy in such a manner as to frighten him, and that he jumped off the ear by reason thereof, and was injured.</p>

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  • holding that since the insurer only cited the factual reason without a permissible statutory reason, the policy termination violated the Act

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Judges: Deán, Green, Here, McCollum, Mitchell, Paxsqn, Sterrett, Williams

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