Kinter v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 33, Oct. T., 1902, by-plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., March T., 1901, No. 255, on verdict for defendant in ease of Maggie W. Kinter v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for death of plaintiff’s husband. Before Stowe, P. J. / The facts are stated in the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. Error assigned was refusal to take off nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Brown,
The deceased was killed at a most dangerous railroad crossing in the borough of Wilkinsburg. The train that struck him was coming from the east. He approached the crossing on South avenue, and to his left—the direction from which the train was coming—the street makes an acute angle with the railroad, on which there were five tracks. In this angle there was a plumbing shop, which obstructed the view of the railroad. It was eight feet and ten inches from the first rail. The through passenger train which collided with the deceased was rapidly approaching on the first…
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