Hamilton v. Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad

Citations

• 183 Pa. 638
• 38 A. 1085
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 1088

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Death—Evidence.</p> <p>In an action against a railroad company to recover damages for the death of plaintiff’s husband, a verdict for the defendant is properly directed where the evidence shows that the deceased, although intoxicated, but not in a helpless condition of intoxication, was carried beyond the station where he had intended to alight, just after dark in the evening; that the conductor, knowing where he wanted to alight, stopped the train shortly after it left the station, assisted him to alight and pointed out' to him the station which had been passed; that the place where lie-got oif tlie ear was exceedingly dangerous; that he reached the station in safety, and passed eleven hundred feet beyond it, where his body was found about four or five o’clock the next morning, on the line of another railroad company ; that he had been dead about an hour when found; and the injuries to his body showed that death must have followed very soon after they were received.</p>