West v. Morgan

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

At daybreak on a September morning, plaintiff, laborer employed by the State Highway Department, was engaged with other workmen in tearing up streetcar rails from the center of a 40-foot wide, concrete, east and west highway about three miles east of Harrisburg. A truck from which the men were working was parked in the middle of the highway facing west, with its headlights, tail light and three lights on top of the cab all burning. About 60 or 65 feet to the east of the truck a barricade was placed across the track with a lighted red lantern on each end. Some 60 or…