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· 3/18/1912

McGinley v. Central Railroad

Citations

  • 235 Pa. 576
  • 84 A. 579
  • 1912 Pa. LEXIS 591

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Defective car — Duty of inspection— Mining company.</p> <p>Where a railroad company, after it has had an opportunity of inspecting a car, delivers such car with a defective brake to the car crew of a mining company, and a member of such crew is injured by reason of the defective brake while the car is being moved on to a siding of the mining company for the purpose of being unloaded, the railroad company will be liable in damages to the member of the mining company’s crew who was injured.</p>

Judges: Elkin, Mestrezat, Moschzisker, Potter, Stewart

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