Shope v. Central Pennsylvania Traction Co.

Citations

• 242 Pa. 207
• 88 A. 920
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 865

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Bight angle collision — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, it appeared that plaintiff when injured was driving in a spring wagon on a city street sixty feet in width, which crossed at right angles another street thirty-five feet wide, upon which defendant’s cars were operated. He was driving at a slow trot, and his horse was struck on the shoulder the instant it reached the track. At the house line, ten and one-half feet from .the nearest track, plaintiff had an uninterrupted view from the direction in which the car came for three hundred and fifty feet. He testified that he looked and saw no car. The court entered judgment for defendant n. o. v. on the ground of plaintiff’s contributory negligence. Held, no error.</p>