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· 11/8/1897

Woelfel v. Federal Street & Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway Co.

Citations

  • 183 Pa. 213
  • 38 A. 592
  • 1897 Pa. LEXIS 742

Syllabus

<p>Negligence. — Street railways — Collision with wagon.</p> <p>In an action against a street railway company to recover damages for the death of the driver of a wagon, the case is for the jury where the evidence for the plaintiff tends to show that the deceased was driving a wagon on a street railway track, and that the motomian of the ear which struck the wagon from behind saw the wagon, or could have seen it, within a time sufficient to have stopped the car before it came in contact with the wagon.</p>

Judges: Dean, Fell, Green, McCollum, Mitchell, Sterrett, Williams

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