Benignia v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Benignia v. Pennsylvania Railroad, 197 Pa. 384 (Pa. 1900)
47 A. 359; 1900 Pa. LEXIS 750
Brown, Dean, Fell, McCollum, Mestrezat, Mitchell, Potter

Benignia v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence in this case the defendant’s counsel moved for and obtained a compulsory nonsuit which the plaintiff’s counsel moved the court to take off. Upon due consideration of the plaintiff’s motion the court refused to take off the nonsuit, and an appeal was taken to this court. On a careful examination of the evidence submitted by *387the plaintiff, we are convinced that he failed to establish his claim against the defendant, and that the court committed no error in granting the nonsuit or in refusing to take it off.

We therefore rest our affirmance of the nonsuit on the opinion of the learned court below, overruling the motion to strike it off. Judgment affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Benignia v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Status
Published
Syllabus
Negligence—Railroads—Risks of employment—Fellow-servant. Where a track layer employed by a railroad company as one of a gang on a construction train is injured as the result of a collision between the construction train and a freight train, the injury being caused either by the negligence of the flagman of the construction train or the engineer of the freight train, he cannot recover.