Crowley v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 231 Pa. 286
• 80 A. 175
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 831

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Obstruction of crossing — Standing car.</p> <p>1. Where a railroad company obstructs for an unreasonable length of time a public crossing with a long train of empty coal cars, and a boy in attempting to cross over upon the standing cars from one side of the street to the other is violently thrown from the platform of one of the cars by the sudden and negligent starting of the train without signal or warning, the railroad company will be liable for the injuries which he sustains; and in such a case it is immaterial that the boy was found after his fall six feet south of the south sidewalk of the street on which the railroad was constructed, and that two witnesses for plaintiff testifying to this fact contradict the plaintiff and two of his other witnesses in their statements that the plaintiff entered on the cars at the crossing.</p> <p>Negligence — Damages—Minor—Rights of widowed mother.</p> <p>2. A widowed mother is entitled to recover damages on her own account for injuries negligently inflicted upon her minor son.</p>