Sittig v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 229 Pa. 15
• 77 A. 1097
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 545

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Contributory negligence — -Head-on collision — Engineer-Single track — Rules of company.</p> <p>No recovery can be had for the death of a locomotive engineer killed in a head-on collision on a single track railroad when the evidence shows that the collision was caused by the contributory negligence of the deceased in disregarding a clearly defined and well-understood duty imposed by the railroad regulations and running his train at a high speed two or three minutes ahead of schedule time when he knew that an extra train must be met and passed.</p>