Siegel v. New York Central Railroad

Citations

• 67 Pa. Super. 307
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 392

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Crossings—Stop, hole and listen — Stop at intervening space between trades.</p> <p>Where a traveler approaches a grade crossing of a railroad and stops, looks and listens, and then enters upon the tracks, it is his duly to continué to watch until over the crossing; and if any intervening space between the tracks offers, where he can have larger opportunities for seeing and hearing, he is bound to stop, look and listen quite as much as he was bound to stop before entering upon the first track.</p> <p>In an action against a railroad company to recover damages for personal injuries and injuries to an automobile suffered in a collision at night between the automobile and an engine at a grade crossing, a judgment for defendant n. o. v. will be sustained where the evidence shows that plaintiff looked and listened, then drove at the rate of about eight miles an hour over four tracks, when he came to an intervening space of fifty feet; that he continued at the same rate without further stop, and was hit by an engine on the next track; that if he had stopped at a point eighteen and a half feet from the track, he would have seen the engine; and that the engine, which was running at eight miles an hour, gave proper signals.</p>