Randall v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 531
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 466

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railway — Wagon—Bight angled collision— Contributory negligence.</p> <p>Where the driver of a team and wagon, thirty feet long, approaches at a slow trot, from a cross street, a broad avenue upon which is a double track electric railway, sees a car on the far track three hundred feet away, when he himself is at the house line, again looks when the front feet of his team are on the first rail of the far track and sees the car ninety feet away, coming at a high speed, and then without stopping endeavors to drive the team across and is injured, he cannot recover for personal injuries sustained by himself.</p> <p>In such a case it is immaterial that the driver testified that it was the general custom for cars to slacken speed at another intervening cross street, and that the car in question did not slacken speed on this occasion at that street.</p>