Callahan v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Callahan v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Opinion of the Court
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The accident out of which this action arises occurred on Delaware avenue, a paved public street of Philadelphia, on which were three tracks of the defendant laid flush with the pavement. The street was used for vehicles of all kinds as well as for the transportation of such cars as the business of the defendant required in that locality. The right of the defendant in the street was concurrent, therefore, with that of the public. Nothing disclosed by the testimony tends to show that the- defendant’s right was greater than that exercised by a street car company occupying the streets of the city. James Callahan, the person injured, was driving a horse not attached to a vehicle southwardly on the westerly side of the street near the middle track of the defendant. Two employees of the defendant were operating a locomotive and tender on the same track at a considerable distance back of the defendant but were moving toward him, the tender being between him and the locomotive. He was driving the horse to the stable of his employer and while so engaged was struck by the tender or a projecting part of the locomotive and seriously injured. It is not disputed that the evidence required the submission of the case to the jury on the negligence of the defendant. It is contended, however, that binding in
The judgment is affirmed.
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- Negligence — Railroads—Concurrent use of city street with public — Contributory negligence — Province of court and jury. Where a railroal company operates three tracks on a city street, with the tracks flush with ti 3 pavement, its right to use the street is not superior to the public, but concurrent with it. If in operati ing a train on such a street, an engineman sees ahead of him a man driving a horse not attached to a vehicle, and proceeds without giving any warning, and while he and the fireman are talking on the opposite side of the engine, the man is struck by a projecting part of the tender or engine, the injured person in an action against the company is entitled to have the question of his contributory negligence submitted to a jury.