Trent v. International Railway Co.

The defendant appeals from four judgments awarding to the plaintiffs damages for personal injuries sustained when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by one of defendant’s trolley cars.

The accident occurred in Buffalo at the Elmwood avenue entrance to the New York State College for Teachers where a concrete driveway, leading from the street to the school buildings, passes over defendant’s trolley tracks. At that point defendant’s tracks run parallel to and about twelve feet west of the paved portion of the street but within the highway proper. On the night of the accident the…