Peruzzi v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Opinion by

Kelueb, J.,

The plaintiff recovered a verdict of $3,500, (of which $1,000 was afterwards remitted), damages for injuries suffered by him when his automobile, which he was driving, was run into and demolished by one of defendant’s express passenger trains. Defendant appeals from the refusal of the court below to enter judgment non obstante veredicto in its favor.

The accident occurred at a grade crossing a short distance west of the defendant’s station at Harmarville, Pa. The railroad at this point runs east and west, east going towards Aspinwall and west towards Pittsburgh. The…