Guyler v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.

Opinion by

Arnold, J.,

Plaintiff appeals from the refusal of the court below to take off the compulsory nonsuit entered in an action of trespass.

Giving the plaintiff the benefit of all reasonable inferences and deductions, his evidence established: At about midnight on a dark and misty night the plaintiff was driving his automobile along the Susquehanna river on a road which crossed defendant’s tracks at grade. Plaintiff’s car slipped off the edge of the road and stalled, the front wheels being against the rails of the defendant. The car could not be extricated by its own power, and plaintiff…