Pennsylvania R.R. v. P.S.C.

Argued April 10, 1935. The main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad bisects the Borough of Penn in Westmoreland County, from east to west, causing a dangerous grade crossing over four railroad tracks at Harrison Street, a principal street of the borough running north and south. The borough has between 1,000 and 1,500 inhabitants, many of whom work in Jeannette, a much larger industrial borough located south of the Pennsylvania Railroad and adjoining the eastern boundary of that part of Penn Borough which lies south of the railroad. The eastern boundary of Penn Borough north of the railroad is…