Joynes v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 239 Pa. 93
• 86 A. 653
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 525

Syllabus

<p>Carriers — Railroad—Detention of goods — Obstruction in yards —Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action against a railroad company to recover damages for loss on produce, it is reversible error for the court to refuse to submit the case to the jury, where the plaintiff’s evidence that the loss was due to an unreasonable delay of the cars containing the goods in the outer yard of the defendant company and failure to carry them to the produce yard is met by evidence that the detention in the outer yards was caused by a congestion of cars in'the produce yard occasioned by an extraordinary demand for yard facilities which the defendant could not have reasonably anticipated.</p>