Winter v. Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Passenger Ry.

Citations

• 153 Pa. 26
• 25 A. 1028
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 1042

Syllabus

<p>Contributory negligence — Electric railway — Stopping horses on track.</p> <p>The substitution of the electric and cable car for the horse car renders impracticable and dangerous certain uses of the streets which were once permissible and comparatively safe, and it is the duty of property owners on,streets occupied by electric and cable railways, and of persons crossing or driving upon such streets, to recognize and conform to the changed condition.</p> <p>A driver, who, in unloading a safe, unnecessarily places his horses squarely across the track of an electric railway on a dark night at a point where there is a descending grade, is guilty of contributory negligence, and,if his horses are injured by a passing ear, he cannot recover from the railway company.</p>