Easby v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.
Easby v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.
Opinion of the Court
Opinion
This is an action for damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff from a fall while in the act of alighting at a regular stop from a bus of the defendant company upon which she had been a passenger. The judge of the court below, to whom the case was tried without a jury, gave a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $13,000. The exceptions filed by the defendant to the verdict were duly dismissed by the court en banc and judgment entered on the verdict, from which the defendant has appealed.
The defendant did not seriously contend below, nor does it do so here, that the evidence was insufficient to warrant a finding that it was guilty of negligence.
The appellant’s complaint is rather with the quantum of the verdict which it asserts is excessive mainly for two reasons, substantially as follows: (1) the trial court erred in finding, on the testimony of the plaintiff’s medical expert, a causal connection between her fall and a gastric ulcer with which she was afflicted as diagnosed two months after the accident and (2) a portion of the cost of maintaining the plaintiff, an
The opinion for the court en banc cogently and adequately disposes of both of these contentions; nor does reversible error appear anywhere.
Judgment affirmed.
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