Welsh v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Citations

• 63 Pa. Super. 143
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 121

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railway companies — ■Injuries to pedestrian at street crossing — Stopping of car — Far side and near side.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by a pedestrian, a woman, while crossing the tracks of the railway, at the far side of a crossing, the case is for the jury where it appears that the car usually stopped on the near side, that under an ordinance it was required to slow up; that “slowing up” meant stopping if there was any one waiting to get on the car; that at the time the plaintiff took her last look at the ear before entering upon the track upon which the car was approaching, it was ten yards beyond the near crossing where she saw a man standing and signalling for the car to stop; that the car did not stop or slow up but went three times its own length beyond the place where it struck plaintiff, before it was stopped.</p>