Erie Railroad v. Standard Oil Co.

OPINION

By HURD, J:

This is an appeal on questions of law from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of this County vacating a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff and in rendering judgment in favor of the defendant-appellee on the ground that answers of the jury to the special interrogatories are inconsistent with the general verdict.

In February of 1924, the Standard Oil Company and the Erie Railroad Company entered into “a sidetrack agreement” which covered the location and use of one of the sidetracks within the No. 2 plant of the Standard Oil Company. The plaintiff’s…