Pletcher v. Scranton Traction Co.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Pletcher v. Scranton Traction Co., 185 Pa. 147 (Pa. 1898)
39 A. 837; 1898 Pa. LEXIS 682
Dean, Fell, Green, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

Pletcher v. Scranton Traction Co.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

Without assenting to all that was said by the learned president of the court below in his opinion refusing to take off the judgment of nonsuit, we are satisfied as to the substantial correctness of his conclusion. It was of course incumbent on the plaintiff to prove that the proximate cause of the sad accident, in which his son lost his life, was negligence of the defendant company’s motorman. We are not satisfied that the testimony on which he relied for that purpose was sufficient to have justified the learned trial judge in submitting the question of the motorman’s negligence to the jury.

Failing to find any error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Jacob Pletcher v. Scranton Traction Company
Cited By
4 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Negligence — Street railway — Running in front of car. In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for the death of a boy twelve yeai’s old, a nonsuit is properly entered where the evidence shows that the deceased, while playing with other boys upon the street at the time of the accident, ran upon one of the railway tracks without paying any attention to the approach of a car, a few feet away, and then, hearing a shout from some companions, stopped, looked in the wrong direction, and was struck by the car.