Janock v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 239, Oct. T., 1915, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1913, No. 814, entering compulsory nonsuit in case of George Janock y. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Swearingen, J. Tbe facts appear by tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court. Tbe court entered a compulsory nonsuit wbicb it subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 239, Oct. T., 1915, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., April T., 1913, No. 814, entering compulsory nonsuit in case of George Janock y. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Trespass to recover damages for personal injuries. Before Swearingen, J. Tbe facts appear by tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court. Tbe court entered a compulsory nonsuit wbicb it subsequently refused to take off. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was in refusing to take off tbe nonsuit.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
Defendant’s railroad crosses Greenfield avenue in the City of Pittsburgh on overhead bridges. Four tracks of the main line cross the street in a straight line on one bridge, and two tracks cross on a curve on another bridge, and join the main line tracks about seventy-five feet beyond the bridges. This leaves an open triangular space between the two overhead bridges at the place where they cross the avenue. The day on which plaintiff was injured a freight train was approaching on the curved track, and, while passing around the curve on the bridge,, several cars…
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