O'Reilly v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 83, April T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1906, No. 1,141, on verdict for plaintiff in case of William C. O’Reilly v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to a horse.
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Appeal, No. 83, April T., 1909, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1906, No. 1,141, on verdict for plaintiff in case of William C. O’Reilly v. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to a horse. Before Frazer, P. J. At the trial it appeared that the action was brought to recover damages for injury to a horse sustained on April 4, 1905, in a collision with a freight car which was being pushed in front ' of an engine along railroad street in the city of Pittsburg at the crossing of Twenty-fifth street. The court charged in…
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Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The plaintiff’s team came into collision with a car of the defendant on Twenty-fifth street in Pittsburg, where that street crosses Railroad street. The defendant uses three tracks on the latter street on one of which the freight car referred to was pushed by a locomotive, and it was the end of the car furthest from the locomotive which struck the team. The driver of the team testified that he did not hear any bell ringing, nor any warning of the approach of the car. The evidence for the defendant showed that the car was moving at the speed of four or five miles an…
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