Kraus v. Beaver Valley Traction Co.

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 161
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 199

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Automobiles — Collision at crossing — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for injuries to an automobile sustained in a collision with an electric car at a crossing, plaintiff is not entitled to recover because of the contributory negligence of his driver, where the evidence shows that as the driver cleared the house line, going at the rate from six to eight miles an hour, he saw a car at a very high rate of speed between ninety and a hundred feet away; that he had his automobile under perfect control and could have stopped it within three féet; that the distance from the curb line to the first rail was twenty-two feet; that he stopped the automobile within a very short distance of the first rail, but so close to it that the rear end of the street car in passing, struck the front extension part of the automobile with either the overhanging step, or due to the swagging of the body of the car.</p>