Woelfel v. Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Co.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Woelfel v. Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Co., 183 Pa. 213 (Pa. 1897)
38 A. 592; 1897 Pa. LEXIS 742
Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

Woelfel v. Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

The only error assigned in this case is the refusal of the court to charge as requested in defendant’s point “ That under all the evidence the verdict should be for the defendant.”

There is nothing in the record to sustain this specification. On the contrary, it clearly appears that there was testimony bearing on the questions of fact in issue, which it was the plain duty of the court to submit to the jury; and that was accordingly done with instructions to which no exception appears to have been taken. The result was a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, impliedly finding that the material facts were as claimed by her. In view of all the testimony it would have been plain error to have withdrawn the case from the jury by affirming the point in question. There is nothing in the ease that requires discussion. The specification of error is dismissed, and judgment affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Mollie Woelfel v. Federal Street and Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Company
Cited By
4 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Negligence. — Street railways — Collision with wagon. In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for the death of the driver of a wagon, the case is for the jury where the evidence for the plaintiff tends to show that the deceased was driving a wagon on a street railway track, and that the motomian of the ear which struck the wagon from behind saw the wagon, or could have seen it, within a time sufficient to have stopped the car before it came in contact with the wagon.