Township of Jackson v. Wagner

Citations

• 127 Pa. 184
• 17 A. 903
• 1889 Pa. LEXIS 1100

Syllabus

<p>[To be reported.]</p> <p>1. Township officers are bound to anticipate and provide for the ordinary needs of travel conducted in the ordinary manner, and to remove obstructions and defects which would naturally or probably cause injury to the traveler along the highway.</p> <p>2. But where the highway is an ordinary country road through an open cultivated region, with no unusual dangers or exposures, such officers are not bound to anticipate the dangers to which a broken wagon or a frightened horse may expose the driver.</p> <p>3. Where the plaintiff’s horse, driven, upon a highway, was frightened at an object for the presence oí which in the highway the township was not responsible, and, turning suddenly, broke off a wheel, and dragged and overturned the carriage upon a stone heap at the roadside at a point where the roadway was not unsafe for ordinary travel, the township is not liable for the resulting injuries.</p>