Flemming v. Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co.
Flemming v. Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co.
Opinion of the Court
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Two verdicts were returned by the jury and the two appeals are presented in one argument. The plaintiff’s right to recover depended entirely on oral testimony and the controverted facts were so fairly submitted by the trial judge that no exception was taken to his charge. The appellant contends that binding instructions should have been given in its favor, and subsequently that a judgment should have been entered non obstante veredicto.
The fair preponderance of the testimony was in favor of the defendant’s claim as to the cause of the accident, and the jury might well have found that Miss Fleming was mistaken in regard to the fall of snow, and the condition of the car step when she had her accident, but her statements were positive, and under the authority of Neslie v. Second & Third St. Pass. Ry. Co., 113 Pa. 300, and Sutton v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 230 Pa. 523, the controverted facts were properly submitted to the jury.
The judgment in each case is affirmed.
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- Negligence — Street railways — Passenger—Alighting from car — Ice on steps — Case for jury. In an action against a street railway company for personal injuries to a passenger, the case must be submitted to the j ury where the plaintiff testifies that in alighting from a car she slipped on hardened snow or ice which had accumulated on the step from a storm that ended some hours before the accident, although several witnesses for the defendant testified that a snowstorm was going on at the time the plaintiff slipped.