Wall v. Lit
Decision Date | 16 April 1900 |
Docket Number | 444 |
Citation | 46 A. 4,195 Pa. 375 |
Parties | Wall v. Lit |
Court | Pennsylvania Supreme Court |
Argued March 19, 1900
Appeal, No. 444, Jan. T., 1899, by plaintiff, from order of C.P. No. 3, Phila. Co., March T., 1899, No. 155, refusing to take off nonsuit. Affirmed.
Trespass for personal injuries. Before McMICHAEL, J.
At the trial it appeared that on January 26, 1899, the plaintiff went to a large department store owned by the defendants to make a purchase. He went into the basement by the direction of a floorwalker, and after he had made his purchase was struck by a roll of oilcloth which one of defendants' employees had been carrying. Plaintiff described the accident as follows:
The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off.
Error assigned was in refusing to take off nonsuit.
Judgment affirmed.
R. Loper Baird, of Baird & Hopkinson, for appellant. -- The defendants were not bound satisfactorily to explain the cause of the accident but they were bound to rebut the presumption of negligence arising from the attendant circumstances: Huey v. Gahlenbeck, 121 Pa. 238; Ryan v. Ardis, 190 Pa. 66; Stewart v. Alcorn, 2 W.N.C. 401; Kaples v. Orth, 61 Wis. 531; Lyons v. Rosenthal, 11 Hun, 46; Dixon v. Pluns, 98 Cal. 384; Howser v. Cumberland, etc., R.R. Co., 80 Md. 146.
The two causes of the injury, the obstruction in the passageway, and the employee stumbling over it with the roll of oilcloth on his shoulder, were concurrently proximate causes of the accident for both of which the defendants are liable: Burrell Township v. Uncapher, 117 Pa. 353; Township of Plymouth v. Graver, 125 Pa. 24; Kitchen v. Union Township, 171 Pa. 145.
Morton Z. Paul and Crawford & Loughlin, for appellees, were not...
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