Riff v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

Center Avenue, extending in an easterly and westerly direction, in Pittsburgh, has a paved cartway of the width of thirty-six feet. In the center thereof is defendant’s double track electric street railway, — that to the south being eastbound. This leaves a space of ten and one-half feet on each side of the rails. On the afternoon of September 17, 1927, the plaintiff, Mrs. Riff, while a passenger on a westbound car was injured by a collision between it and an autotruck. The suit brought to recover for the injuries thus sustained resulted in verdicts and judgments…