Kerr v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

• 69 Pa. Super. 112
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 24

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Bight angled collision between car and team — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>Where an omnibus twenty-five feet long and drawn by six horses geared in three pairs, one ahead of the other, approaches the crossing of an electric railway at an intersection, under the conduct of a driver and an assistant driver, and the view of the drivers is so obstructed by buildings, that their view along the tracks is but eighteen feet when the heads of the front horses are very near the tracks, it is the duty of the driver to stop and direct his assistant to go forward and see whether the crossing is safe, and if he fails to do so, and the front horses are struck and injured, his employer cannot recover for the Injuries sustained.</p>