Goller v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Citations

• 229 Pa. 412
• 78 A. 929
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 508

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Passenger—Crossing tracks at station — “Stop, look and listen.”</p> <p>One who is struck by a moving train, which was plainly visible from the place where it was his duty to stop, look and listen, will be conclusively presumed to have gone into an obvious danger. This rule applies to a passenger who attempts to cross a double-track railroad at a station when he had, before crossing, an unobstructed view in the direction from which the train came for 800 feet and the engine was then within 200 feet of the plank crossing over which he attempted to go.</p>