Bendik v. Pennsylvania Co.

In an action in the Municipal Court to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff Bendik through the negligence of the defendant railroad company, plaintiff had a verdict for $825 damages and from a judgment thereon the defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

In the 14th street yard of the defendant are a large number of north and’ south tracks. There is a coal hoist just east of track 17 and also a tramway track on which small cars loaded with coal are run to the hoist and then hoisted and the coal dumped into the tenders of engines standing on track…