Gulf, M. & N. R. v. Hardy

The appellee sued the appellant for a personal injury. The declaration contained three counts: First, the failure to ring the bell and blow the whistle, etc., on approaching public crossings in the town of Philadelphia; second, for the operation of said train at a greater rate of speed than six miles an hour within the corporate limits of the town of Philadelphia; third, that on said occasion said train was being driven at a rapid rate of speed and in a northerly direction and in the direction of plaintiff’s team and defendant’s warehouse, where plaintiff was unloading feed from defendant’s…