Johnson v. Director General of Railroads

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Fbazeb,

On February 18,1919, between four and five o’clock in the morning, plaintiff, while driving a two-ton laundry truck along the public highway near Pittsburgh, on approaching a grade crossing over defendant’s tracks, found the safety gates down. He stopped, looked and listened and, while waiting, the gates were raised and a voice, which seemed to come from the tower, said “Go ahead.” There were four railroad tracks at the crossing. He passed over three in safety and was struck on the fourth by an express train running at the rate of fifty miles an hour. Plaintiff…