Todd v. Second Avenue Traction Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 163, Oct. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries.
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Appeal, No. 163, Oct. T., 1898, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Allegheny Co., on verdict for plaintiff. Trespass for personal injuries. Before Kennedy, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court and by the following charge of the court below: The action which you have been sworn to try is for the recovery of damages for injuries which the plaintiff claims to have received in an accident, which accident he also claims occurred through the negligence of the defendant. The defendant is a street car company, operating a line of cars, by means of electricity, between…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice McCollum,
This is a peculiar case and the occurrence on which it is based is a novel one. It is the outcome of a collision imputed *593to the negligence of the defendant company. Immediately preceding the collision the company’s car was standing on the tracts of the street railway about twenty feet from the lines of railroad operated by the Pennsylvania Company, and facing the same. The safety gates at the crossing were down and a train was passing westward on one of the lines at a moderate rate of speed. As the train was crossing the line of the street railway operated by…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Goodhart v. Pennsylvania RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Tietz v. Philadelphia Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
3Cited by2 opinions
- Machen v. Railway Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1900
- Stover v. Colonial Trust Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Berks County1922