Hanlon v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

Citations

• 221 Pa. 490
• 70 A. 821
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 519

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Grade crossing — “.Stop, look and listen”— Case for fury.</p> <p>In an action by a woman against a railroad company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained at a grade crossing, the case is for the jury where the evidence shows that the plaintiff, before starting to cross from a point fifteen feet from the tracks where she could see 500 feet, looked and listened for a train and continued to watch for-it as she walked towards the track; that at the edge of the first rail her foot struck a plank, which was out of place, causing her to drop a package, and almost fall on the rail; and that she was struck after she had crossed the tracks by the crossbeam of an engine, which was running thirty-or forty miles an hour and of the approach of which no notice was given until an instant before the accident.</p>