Bacon v. Delaware etc. R.
Citations
- 143 Pa. 14
- 21 A. 1002
- 1891 Pa. LEXIS 902
Syllabus
<p>[To be reported.]</p> <p>1. For a person to attempt to get upon a railroad train, while it is in motion; is negligence per se: wherefore, when a passenger, while engaged .in such an attempt, fell under the cars and was killed, no recovery could be had against the railroad company for his death, even though his fall was occasioned by a defect in the station platform.</p> <p>2. In an action for the death of a passenger killed at a station by a train, the plaintiff’s narr averring, in effect, that the deceased received the injuries of which he died while walking upon the station platform for the purpose of getting on the cars of the moving train, the testimony on both sides tending to establish this averment, a verdict for the defendant was properly directed.</p>
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- holding municipalities have no power to zone as to utility structures other than buildings
- noting that to possibly subject [the Philadelphia Electric Company] to a miscellaneous collection of regulations upon its system would clearly burden and indeed disable it from successfully functioning as a utility
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Judges: Clark, Green, Paxson, Sterrett, Williams
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