Frank v. Reading Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Plaintiff’s husband was killed in a right-angle collision with defendant’s train at a grade crossing, and in her action for damages she recovered $8,000, on which judgment was entered. The tracks of the railroad, at the point of collision, are elevated above the level of the public road some three or four feet and the grade on each side of the railroad crossing is about eight per cent. There are two tracks at the crossing so located that the distance between the innermost rails of each track is twenty-four and one-half feet. Approximately three hundred feet to…