Quigley v. Standard Steel Car Co.

Citations

• 226 Pa. 35
• 74 A. 741
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 870

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — ■Railroads—Master and servant — Evidence—Nonsuit.</p> <p>In an action by a conductor against his employer, a steel car company, to recover damages for personal injuries suffered on the defendant’s premises, by his being struck by some object projecting from the rear car of a train of which he was conductor, a nonsuit is properly entered where it does not appear from the evidence whether the car in question belonged to the defendant company, or was that of some railroad company in which material was being brought into the defendant’s works, and it also does not appear when, where or by whom the car was loaded, or when it came into the condition in which it was at the time of the accident, or that the defendant company knew of its condition either directly or constructively.</p>