General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Appellant, a railroad company, was defendant in an action of trespass brought in the county court of Allegheny County by General Motors Acceptance Corporation, appellee herein, in which it was charged that a Chevrolet automobile had been totally destroyed as a result of the negligent operation of a train over one of its grade crossings. From the judgment entered upon the verdict against it in the county court appellant sought to appeal to the common pleas of that county and, under the Act of May 5, 1911, P. L. 198, as amended by the Act of April 9, 1915, P. L. 48,…