McDonald v. Pennsylvania R.

GRIM, District Judge.

In May of 1950, a large truck crane owned and operated by the defendant S. J. Groves & Sons Co., Inc., stopped while crossing the tracks of the defendant Pennsylvania Railroad Company at a public crossing. While the truck crane was stopped on the railroad tracks, a train of the Pennsylvania Railroad rounded a bend and proceeded toward the intersection at such a speed that it could not be stopped before it struck the vehicle in its way. It struck the truck crane with great force demolishing it, badly damaging the engine of the train, and injuring the engineer of the train…