Kittanning Borough v. Burns

Citations

• 47 Pa. Super. 540
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 197

Syllabus

<p>Automobiles — Passing street car on wrong side — Boroughs—Burgess-Act of April 27, 1909, P. L. 263.</p> <p>1. Where passengers are taken on and discharged on both sides of the single track of a street railway in a borough,-and there is no law or ordinance requiring passengers to alight on one side rather than on another, the driver of an automobile must stop his automobile while a street car is stationary as provided by the Act of April 27, 1909, P. L. 265, and he cannot allege as an excuse for passing a standing street car on one side that the passengers should have alighted on the other side.</p> <p>2. Under the Acts of May 19, 1887, P. L. 133, and April 27, 1909, P. L. 265, a burgess has jurisdiction to summarily convict the driver of an automobile for violation of the act of April 27,1909, P. L/265.</p>