Sutter v. Young Township

Citations

• 130 Pa. 72
• 18 A. 610
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1163

Syllabus

<p>Where, in an action against a township for negligence, there was evidence that, with notice to the supervisors, a rut, twelve to fourteen inches deep and a rod or so long, was permitted to continue for a long time in. a public road but ten feet wide cut upon a hillside, and at a point where there was a down grade and the road was sloping towards the lower bank, whereby the plaintiff’s sled loaded with boards was overturned and himself injured, without contributory negligence on his part, it was not error to submit the question of negligence on the part of the defendant to the jury: Plymouth Tp. v. Graver, 125 Pa. 24, distinguished.</p>