Gallagher v. Kahn

Citations

• 223 Pa. 541
• 72 A. 854
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 570

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Pedestrian on street — Cab.</p> <p>A pedestrian started to cross a street at a regular crossing. Two street railway tracks were on the street. He walked one-third of the way across and stopped to let a car on the far track pass. Then before starting he looked and saw another car approaching from the same direction and seeing nothing else to hinder, he continued, and when about halfway-between the farthest track and the curb line which he was approaching, he was knocked down and run over by a cab driven at a high rate of speed. The cab came from the same direction as the two cars. Plaintiff testified that he was looking straight ahead of him, as he walked across the street, but that his line of vision took in as much as twenty feet on each side of him. Held, that the case was for the jury and that a verdict and judgment for plaintiff should be sustained.</p>