Gormley v. Union Paving Co.

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The plaintiff was injured while alighting from a trolley car on Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia. The Union Paving Company was repaving the north side of Le-high Avenue and under its contract was required to erect and maintain in a reasonably safe condition temporary approaches to entrances and exits at places where passengers were discharged from trolleys on said avenue. At the place where the accident happened, the appellant paving company had erected a platform consisting of three tiers of railroad logs, each tier containing four to six ties, side by side laid parallel…