Weisenberg v. Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley R. R.

Citations

• 237 Pa. 33
• 85 A. 74
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 888

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Passenger—Stepping in front of train.</p> <p>The rule that a person who steps in front of a moving railroad train that he saw or would have seen, if he had taken the care that the law and common prudence require, will be conclusively presumed to have been negligent, applies to a passenger who, after alighting from a car to the- east platform of a double-track railroad, attempted to cross to the west platform on a plank crossing provided for the use of the public, and was struck by a train on the west track where he had an unobstructed view for twelve hundred feet.</p>