Sturdevant v. Erie Lackawanna Railroad

OPINION

WEBER, District Judge.

This is a diversity negligence action controlled by Pennsylvania law. Plaintiff’s decedent met his death in a collision between an automobile which he was driving and defendant’s train at a grade crossing near Lottsville, Warren County, Pennsylvania. The highway, running north and south, crosses two sets of tracks at approximately right angles. These tracks are approximately eighty feet apart. Going north as he was proceeding the driver would first come upon a crossbuek railroad warning sign which warned of the crossing and additionally of “two sets of tracks”, at…