MURPHY v. PITTSBURGH RWYS. CO.


421 Pa. 252 (1966)

Murphy v. Pittsburgh Railways Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Ward Hindman, with him Prichard, Lawler & Geltz, for defendant, Pittsburgh Railways Company, appellant.

James F. Manley, with him Burns & Manley, for additional defendants, appellants.

Frank J. Kernan, with him P.J. McArdle, for appellee.

Before MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, May 2, 1966:

Mrs. Jean F. Murphy, 74 years of age, was walking up Central Way in Mt. Lebanon, a sidewalkless alley about 18 feet wide, when a Pittsburgh Railways bus turning into Central Way from Central Square bore down on her, and, in order to escape being struck, she fled to the left of the alley and fell into a window well of a building owned by Phillip J. Mallin and others, whose names do not need to be enumerated here. She sustained...

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