Peterson v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Peterson v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Opinion of the Court
A careful consideration of the testimony and of the rulings complained of in the specifications has convinced us that no error was committed by the learned court below on the trial or ’ in the dismissal of the plaintiff’s appeal as to Couvert and Bauer six months prior thereto. The issue, after this dismissal, was between Peterson and the Railroad Company. On the trial of the case and at the close of the plaintiff’s testimony the defendant’s counsel moved for a compulsory nonsuit which after argument was awarded. Before the nonsuit was entered the plaintiff moved the court to amend his statement, which motion was denied, on the ground that the proposed amendment would introduce a new cause of action. While we are all of the opinion that the refusal of the amendment was proper, we may add that an allowance of it could have been unavailing because the testimony on the part of the plaintiff was not sufficient to establish a case against the defendant. The refusal to take off the nonsuit is therefore sustained and all the specifications are dismissed.
Judgment affirmed.
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- Arbitration—Appeals—Gosts. Where a proceeding under the compulsory arbitration law has resulted in an award in favor of the plaintiff against one defendant, and the finding of no cause of action as to the other two, and the defendant against whom the award is found, appeals and pays all the costs; and the plaintiff subsequently appeals from the award of no cause of action as to the other two defendants, but pays no costs, although the defendant’s bill of costs has been filed, the court commits no error in striking this appeal from the record. Negligence—Pleading— Amendment to statement. Where the statement in a negligence case against a railroad company shows that the accident was caused by the act of a felldw-servant, the plaintiff will not be permitted more than three years after the accident, after the case has been referred to arbitrator's and the railroad company has appealed from their award; and after all the plaintiff’s testimony is in, in a trial before a jury, to amend his statement so as to aver that the accident was caused by the fact that the railroad company had not provided proper signals and had not placed a sufficient number of men on the train which caused the accident to control it. Negligence—Switching train—Runaway cars. Plaintiff was employed in the repair yard of a raiload company as a carpenter and ear repairer. At the time of the accident, he was engaged in making repairs to a car standing on one of the repair yard tracks of which there were several. At the time of the accident, an engine in charge of other employees of the raiload company was engaged in pushing some empty cars in on the track on which the plaintiff was working. These cars were pushed against two other empty cars standing on the track and the train continued on toward the place where the defendant was at work. The train was stopped at a safe distance from plaintiff, but the two detached cars continued along the tracks, struck the ear on which plaintiff was working and injured him. Held, that a nonsuit was properly entered.