Pilgrim Laundry Co. v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

• 56 Pa. Super. 593
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 125

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Crossing tracks — Wagon and car — ■ Bight angle collision.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for injuries to a horse and wagon resulting from a right angle collision between a wagon and car, there is no case for the jury, where the evidence for the plaintiff shows that the plaintiff’s driver driving south on the west side of defendant’s track in the evening saw a fully lighted car coming northward about 200 feet distant; that shortly afterward desiring to cross the track to go eastward he again looked and saw the car' about 100 feet away moving toward him at an ordinary rate of speed; that between the team and the car about forty feet from the former was a “Stop” sign; that it was customary, although not obligatory for cars to stop at this sign; that as the driver turned, the head of his horse was ten feet distant from the first rail; that the driver did not look again, but permitted his horse to proceed to walk across the track, and that the car struck the wagon between the front and rear wheels.</p>