Snyder v. Reading Company

Opinion by

Me. Justice Walling,

On July 2,1920, Abe L. Snyder, while a passenger on defendant’s train, sustained personal injuries, caused by a rear-end collision. This suit, brought to recover therefor, resulted in a verdict and judgment in his favor and defendant has appealed. The collision raised a presumption of negligence against the carrier (Doud v. Hines, Director Gen., 269 Pa. 182; Biehley v. Phila. & R. Ry. Co., 257 Pa. 369; Phila. & Reading Railroad Co. v. Anderson, 94 Pa. 351), which defendant made no attempt to rebiit. The real contest was over the question of damages and this…