Barnes v. Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway Co.

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

Defendant appeals from two judgments against it following verdicts assessing damages to plaintiffs for personal injuries and for the destruction of an automobile, resulting from a collision between one of defendant’s cars and the automobile at a grade crossing. The cases were tried together in the court below, were argued together in this court and will be disposed of in one opinion.

The'disposition of the cases involves a determination of the question whether plaintiffs were contributorily negligent. It appears from the evidence that Joseph Barnes, minor son of Prances…