Moyer v. Pittsburgh, Mars & Butler Railway

Opinion by

Me. Justice Schaffee,

The railway of defendant runs through the farm occupied by plaintiff and his wife at the time of her death. She owned the land and had sold a strip through it to defendant for the construction of its electric railway, reserving two crossings, one of them a foot crossing leading from the house on one side of the right-of-way to t'he barn on the other. At the place where the accident happened, the railway, which consisted of a single track, was on a curve and in a cut. The sides of the cut had been excavated to make the foot crossing.

Plaintiff’s wife, to recover…