172 Pa. 438 | Pa. | 1896
The subjects of complaint in the first three specifications of error, are the affirmance of plaintiff’s requests for charge recited therein respectively.
The testimony, properly before the jury, tended to prove the facts of which these three propositions are severally predicated, and, having been submitted to them in a clear, correct and comprehensive charge, their verdict necessarily implies a finding of said facts substantially as stated. As to the law involved in these propositions, it is scarcely necessary to say that it has been well settled in a line of cases, commencing with Jones v. Wagner, 66 Pa. 429, to which it is our purpose to adhere. In
In stating his claim plaintiff substantially avers that the injuries of which he complains were the result of two causes, negligent mining, and defendant’s failure to provide proper surface support. It was competent for him to prove on the trial that said injuries resulted from both of these causes combined, or from either of them separately. An examination of the testimony shows that it tended to prove all the material averments contained in the statement. It involved questions of fact which were for the exclusive consideration of the jury, and to them it was fairly submitted with properly guarded and adequate instructions. There was no error in refusing to affirm either of defendant’s points for charge recited in the remaining specifications.
Judgment affirmed.