Leitner v. Columbia Rwy., Gas & Electric Co.

(dissenting) : Action for damages on account of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in being struck by a car of the street railway system of the defendant, while he was attempting to cross the track on foot.

The complaint contains various specifications of negligence which will later be adverted to; the defendant denied all negligence, and pleaded contributory negligence of the plaintiff, and that he was a trespasser upon its track when injured.

The case was tried before his Honor Judge Dennis and a jury, the trial resuiting in a verdict of $20,000 in favor of the…