Cebulskie v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

Opinion by

Mr. Justice O’Brien,

Appellee, Edward Cebulskie, was injured when the delivery truck he was driving went off a bridge maintained by the appellant railroad. Cebulskie brought an action of trespass alleging that the railroad was negligent in maintaining the bridge and that this negligence was the proximate cause of the accident.

At the trial the appellee testified that as he drove onto the bridge, the front wheels of his truck began to “shimmy” when they went from the macadam highway onto the beginning of the bridge surface, which was a few inches lower; that almost immediately…