McGrane v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.

Citations

• 20 Pa. Super. 200
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 208

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Municipalities— Public improvement— Obstruction of ingress and egress.</p> <p>Where a city undertakes a great public improvement by which the tracks of a railroad are sunk below level for the purpose of abolishing grade crossings, and the city by ordinance assumes responsibility for “ the construction and removal of temporary railroad tracks and the maintenance of railroad and highway travel during the construction,” the railroad company is not liable to a property owner for an injury oaused by the prevention of free ingress to and egress from the owner’s premises resulting from the laying of a temporary track in front of them, where no negligence in the operation of the road is shown.</p>