Henderson v. United Traction Co.

Citations

• 202 Pa. 527
• 51 A. 1027
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 558

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Grossing tracks — Speed of car.</p> <p>Where in an action by a husband against a street railway company to recover damages for the death of his wife, it appears that the car which struck the deceased was running at a rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour, over a public crossing in a populous part of a city, which was double the ordinary speed of ears on the avenue in which the accident occurred; that no notice of the approach of the car was given; that no attempt was made to check its speed or stop it until the instant of the collision, after which it ran 180 feet; that when at the curb the deceased stopped and looked in the direction of the car which was then variously estimated to be from 200 to 400 feet from the crossing and that she then had but thirteen feet to walk to clear the track, the case is for the jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff will be sustained.</p>