Kauffman v. Nelson

Citations

• 225 Pa. 174
• 73 A. 1105
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 627

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Automobiles—Alighting from street car — Duty to look.</p> <p>1. Where a passenger alights from a street car, it is his duty to look where he is going, and not to rush blindly into danger. Such a person is not relieved from the charge of contributory negligence if without looking he takes two steps from the car and then suddenly seeing an automobile, stops and is run down and injured.</p> <p>2. It is the duty of a person operating an automobile who sees a street car standing at a regular stopping place, to exercise very great care in passing it, to avoid injury to persons going to or from it.</p>