Pennsylvania R. v. Shindledecker

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

This is a ease of injury to an automobile truck driver at a highway-railway crossing. The only open question is whether a verdict *163for defendant should have bean instructed, because of plaintiff’s contributory negligence.

In answer to special questions submitted pursuant to our suggestion in Penna. R. R. v. Stegeman, 22 F.(2d) 69, 72, tho jury found that an automatic crossing bell, which should have been set ringing by the approaching train, was not ringing, and that the plaintiff did stop, look, and listen at the properly effective point. For the purposes of this…