O'Hey v. Commonwealth Title Insurance & Trust Co.
O'Hey v. Commonwealth Title Insurance & Trust Co.
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The appellant complains that the court erred first, in not giving binding instructions for the defendant; and second, that the charge permitted the jury to find that if the plaintiff was injured on the sidewalk in front of other property of defendant than that described in the declaration, there might be a verdict for the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s allegation was that she was injured in front of lot No. 256, or between that lot and No. 258, immediately adjoining it on Queen street; other evidence offered by the plaintiff tended to show that the injury was received in front of No. 260, belonging to same defendant, and it is contended by the appellant that by reason of this apparent contradiction in the plaintiff’s evidence she has failed to make out a case. The appellant owns four houses in a block on contiguous lots. The plaintiff’s evidence shows that there was a depression or hole in the sidewalk near the line dividing lots 256 and 258. The plaintiff, herself, describes the defect as a “ hole,” into which her foot went. The ground
In view of the affirmation of the defendant’s second point, the objection to the charge of the court set forth in the second assignment of error is not well taken. The subject under consideration in that portion of the charge was the question of title, and the reference was to the part in which the hole was. The instruction of the court was that the plaintiff must prove the title in the defendant, and that if the hole was in the sidewalk in front of the defendant’s property, the plaintiff might recover, and this manifestly had reference to the property where the plaintiff alleged she was injured. It does not appear that any other defect existed in the sidewalk in that vicinity, and as the jury was instructed that the plaintiff could not recover unless the fact was found to be that she was injured in the hole
The exceptions are overruled and the judgment affirmed.
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- Negligence — Sidewalk—Evidence as to locality of accident. In an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by a fall in a hole in a sidewall!;, it appeared that defendant owned four lots nu'mbered 256, 258, 260 and 262. The statement of claim averred that the hole was in the pavement of No. 256. Plaintiff testified that she was injured in front of No. 256, or between that lot and No. 258. Two persons who assisted the plaintiff after the accident, testified that they thought that the accident occurred in front of No. 260. A third person who came up immediately afterward described the location as at or near 260, but he stated that the other two witnesses had carried the plaintiff bodily before he came up. The evidence, showed that there was a hole near the dividing line of lots Nos. 256 and 258, and that the pavement in front of No. 260 was without defect. Held, that the court could not depiare that there was a positive contradiction in the evidence offered by plaintiff, but that it was for the jury to say whether there was conflict in the evidence.