Lees v. Phila. & Reading R. R.

Citations

• 154 Pa. 46
• 25 A. 1041
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 838

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroad—Grade crossing — “ Stop, look and listen.”</p> <p>In an action by a husband against a railroad company to recover damages for the death of his wife killed at a grade crossing, it is proper to enter a compulsory nonsuit where the evidence for the plaintiff shows that, at the point where the accident occurred, there were three main tracks and a siding, and that the deceased crossed the siding and one track before she reached the track upon which she was struck, and that on both the siding and first track she could have had an unobstructed view of the railroad for a distance of nine hundred feet in the direction from which the train came which struck her.</p>