Alemento v. Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad

Citations

• 255 Pa. 588
• 100 A. 464
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 498

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroad companies — Infant' trespassers on track— Rescue — Injury to rescuer — Case for jury.</p> <p>Where in an action against a railroad company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in consequence of plaintiff’s being struck by defendant’s train it appeared that plaintiff’s infant child was trespassing upon the track where she could have been seen from an approaching train for nine hundred feet, that defendant’s train approached endangering the child’s life and that-while plaintiff was endeavoring to-rescue the child, he was struck by the train and suffered the injuries complained of, the case was for the jury and a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff was sustained by an equally divided court.</p>