Carroll v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. Case by Robert Carroll against the Pennsylvania Railroad Compány to recover damages for injuries to the person of the plaintiff, caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. Case by Robert Carroll against the Pennsylvania Railroad Compány to recover damages for injuries to the person of the plaintiff, caused by the alleged negligence of the defendant. On the trial in the court below, before Livinsston, J., the plaintiff testified, inter alia, as follows : “ On the evening of October 11th, 1879,1 went to the Pennsylvania Railroad depot, in Lancaster, to get a ticket to go home to Marietta......It was five minutes to 7 o’clock p.m......I came out of the ticket office or waiting-room. As I came out I saw a…
1Opinion of the Court
— Per Curiam :
The injury received by the plaintiff was attributable solely to his own gross carelessness. It is in vain for a man to say that he looked and listened, if, in despite of what his eyes and ears must have told him, he walked directly in front of a moving locomotive.
Judgment affirmed.
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- Groner v. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1898
- Klutt v. Philadelphia & R. Ry. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1904