Thomas v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

This suit results from a grade-crossing accident. A branch of the defendant’s railway, extending south from Pittsburgh to Brownville, passes through a small village known as Elco; it has a double-track, that to the west being southbound. The main street extends along t'he east side of the tracks, but there is another street coming up from the north on the west side of the tracks which turns east and crosses the railroad at grade. In the early afternoon of October 15, 1920, plaintiff’s husband, Seth Thomas, while delivering meat and groceries to customers in an…