Gilmore v. United Traction Co.

Citations

• 26 Pa. Super. 97
• 1904 Pa. Super. LEXIS 270

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Collision between car and wagon — Crossing.</p> <p>No question arises as to the proper place to look in crossing electric roads in cities. The duty is to look just before crossing. The observation should be made at the time and place which would afford information of the presence of an approaching car.</p> <p>Where the driver of a wagon leaves his wagon in a ten feet wide alley about twenty-five feet from the corner of a street on which an electric railway is operated, walks to the corner, looks in both directions, and seeing no car returns to his wagon, and drives slowly into the street and on to the track without again looking, and a ear strikes the team just as it gets on the track, the driver is guilty of contributory negligence, and the owner of the team cannot recover for injuries sustained.</p>