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
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
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.
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- 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.