Willis v. Armstrong County

Citations

• 183 Pa. 184
• 38 A. 621
• 1897 Pa. LEXIS 734

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Bridges— Guardrail —Proximate and remote cause — Non-suit.</p> <p>In an action against a county to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff by reason of a wagon in which she. was riding going over an approach to a bridge not provided with a guard-rail, anon-suit is properly entered where it appears that after the wagon had passed the bridge safely, the traces broke, and tke'wagon, freed from the horses, ran back, down grade, into the stream.</p>