Brinkerhoff v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Decedent’s automobile while being driven by him southerly across defendant’s railroad track at grade in the daytime was struck by defendant’s train and decedent was killed. On the trial plaintiff was nonsuited on the ground that the proof showed contributory negligence in decedent as a matter of law. The railroad crossed the highway at an angle northeasterly and southwesterly, the highway running northerly and southerly. The train, consisting of an electric car, a baggage car and one coach, was being backed across the highway from the southwest. The coach was the northerly or rear car,…