Boyles v. Monongahela Street Railway Co.

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 443
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 260

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street raihoays — Collision with wagon — Speed.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries, the ease is for the jury, and a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained, where the evidence for the plaintiff, although contradicted in all material points, tends to show that at the time of the accident she was riding in a wagon which was being driven on a track of the defendant company, that the driver of the wagon warned by a signal from a car behind, started to cross the other track in order to reach another street, when the wagon was struck by a car on the second- track, which was run at a very high rate of speed, and the motorman of which was not looking ahead but was looking sideways at the car on the first track.</p>