Studebaker v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.

Citations

• 260 Pa. 79
• 103 A. 532
• 1918 Pa. LEXIS 471

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Damages—Compensation for disfigurement or deformity — Mental suffering — Instruction to jury.</p> <p>1. In estimating damage? in the ease of a personal injury, where disfigurement or deformity of the person has occurred, the jury may take such fact into consideration, and allow for mental suffering which is the natural and necessary result of the physical injury.</p> <p>2. In the trial of an action for personal injuries sustained by a wife in consequence of a collision between the motorcycle, on which she was riding, and defendant’s trolley car, caused by the negligence of defendant, where it appeared that plaintiff’s face was disfigured as a result of the accident, leaving bad and permanent scars across her cheek and lip, the pourt made no error in charging the jury that the wife was entitled to recover for “the pain and suffering and the disfigurement or deformity, or whatever you may call it, brought about by this accident.”</p>