Salerno v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.

Citations

• 46 Pa. Super. 243
• 1911 Pa. Super. LEXIS 261

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Evidence.</p> <p>An action against a railroad company to recover damages for personal injuries cannot be maintained, where it appears that the plaintiff, an employee of a city contractor, while standing ten feet from the tracks of the railroad and under a bridge, was struck by a poker about ten feet long and about one and one-half inches thick, which fell upon him as an engine was passing, and there is no evidence whatever to show that the poker fell from or was thrown from the engine, and it appears that it might have dropped through the floor of the bridge.</p>