Case ID: njl_68/html/0242-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLIAM C. HENDRICKSON v. THE PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILROAD COMPANY.
    Submitted March, 1902
    Decided June 9, 1902.
    Where the liability of a railroad company depended upon whether the fence which separated its right of way from the property of the plaintiff, and which it was the company’s duty to maintain and keep in repair, had been out of repair for a sufficiently long time to charge the company with notice, is a question for the jury.
    On error to the Somerset Circuit Court.
    Before Gummere, Chiee Justice, and Justices Van Syckei., Garrison and Garretson.
    For the plaintiff in error, James J. Bergen.
    
    For the defendant in error, Dung an & Reger.
    
   Per Curiam.

We find no error in the refusal to nonsuit, nor in the refusal of the trial court to direct a verdict for the defendant. The liability of the defendant company depended upon whether the fence which separated its right of way from the property of the plaintiff, and which it was the defendant’s duty to maintain and keep in repair, had been out of repair for a sufficiently long time to charge defendant with notice of 'its condition. Under the evidence submitted, this was a question for the jury, and not for the court to decide.

The judgment below should be affirmed.