Riesberg v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

The background of these appeals, involving questions of both contributory negligence and negligence, is an accident wherein a train collided with an automobile at a railroad crossing.

On July 23, 1955, and for some years prior thereto, the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company (Rail*437road) owned and maintained a railroad crossing, known as the River Road Crossing, in the Borough of McKees Rocks, Allegheny County. At grade, three separate sets of railroad tracks cross a public highway known as River Road; the tracks run generally east-west and the highway…