Collins v. Pennsylvania Rd.

The principal law question presented in this appeal has to do with the propriety of the trial court’s direction of a verdict, at the end of plaintiff’s case, in favor of the defendant and entering final judgment thereon.

The action is for damages for personal injury which resulted from defendant’s train colliding with an automobile, in which plaintiff, a minor of the age of 16 years, was riding as a guest passenger, at a street crossing in the city of Newark.

It was averred and established by plaintiff’s evidence that defendant was negligent in two respects: First, the crossing was a dangerous…