Gourlay Et Ux v. P.R.T. Co.

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The issue between these parties is a narrow one.

On Christmas night of 1927 the plaintiffs were traveling on defendant’s trolley car on their way to 52d Street and Lansdowne Avenue. ■ When the car was about 150 feet distant from 52nd Street, it was blocked by traffic in the street, and without waiting for the traffic to move so that the trolley could arrive at or about the usual stopping place to receive and let off passengers, defendant’s motorman in charge of the car,—it was a one-man car—, called, “All out for 52d Street” and opened the safety door in the front of the…