Haney v. Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Manchester Traction Co.

Citations

• 159 Pa. 395
• 28 A. 235
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1525

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Electric railways — Crossings—Watchman.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for personal injuries against a company operating an electric railway, the case should be submitted to the jury where evidence for the plaintiff tends to show that plaintiff, while driving a loaded two-horse wagon, stopped about ten or twelve feet short of defendant’s track at a public crossing, that he saw a car approaching apparently at its usual rate of speed, and a considerable distance off, that he was then signaled by the company’s watchman to cross the track, and while in the act of doing so was struck by the car and injured, and several witnesses testified that the car was going at an unusually high rate of speed.</p>