Strader v. Monroe

Citations

• 202 Pa. 626
• 51 A. 1100
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 574

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Bridges—County bridge— Guard rail — Bicycle.</p> <p>In an action by a woman against a county to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in falling over the side of a bridge which had no guard rail, the questions of defendant’s negligence, and the plaintiff’s contributory negligence are for the jury, and a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained, where the evidence for the plaintiff tends to show that at the time of the accident plaintiff and her son, a boy about thirteen years old, were riding over the bridge on bicycles; that the boy was riding ahead, and obscured from his mother’s view a loose plank on the floor of the bridge; that the boy went around the plank, and in doing so called his mother’s attention to it, but too late, as her bicycle struck the plank, was diverted to one side, and before plaintiff could recover control of it, she went over the unprotected side of the bridge, fell fourteen feet on rocks below and broke her spine.</p>