Furby v. Pennsylvania R. R.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

At about nine o’clock on the evening of June 7, 1922, the engine on defendant’s northbound passenger train, known as the Buffalo Express, when four miles south of the City of York, jumped the track, causing its wreck and the derailment of several cars attached thereto. The rear end of the train, however, was not disturbed, except by a sudden stop. Miss Harriet Y. Furby, the plaintiff, enroute from Florida to Canada, was a passenger in the rear coach, a sleeping car, and had dis robed for the night. Aroused by the accident, she quickly put on her stockings, shoes…