Lozzi v. Pennsylvania Railroad

At the conclusion of the evidence produced by the plaintiff, in the trial of this suit for injuries which he sustained when his automobile was struck by a locomotive of the defendant at a street crossing, a verdict was directed for the defendant on the theory that the plaintiff had been guilty of negligence contributing to the accident. According to the plaintiff’s testimony, he was driving his car at a moderate speed as he approached the railway tracks of the defendant on Washington Street in Hagerstown, about four o’clock on Christmas morning, 1925, and before proceeding over the tracks,…