Court Opinion

ID: 6251337
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-17 21:16:02.232179+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:25.641365
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam,
The right of the plaintiff to recover depended entirely upon the finding of facts by the jury. No question of law was involved, and there is nothing in the appeal that requires discussion. The case, as made out by the plaintiff’s testimony, fvas that he was riding in his milk wagon on a borough street, on which the defendant had a single track road. Because of the unevenness of the surface of the street at the sides, he drove in the middle with the wheels of his wagon astride one of the rails; that before turning on the track he looked back when he could see one thousand feet and saw no car. After driving three hundred and fifty feet, his wagon was struck by a work car which came rapidly behind it and of the approach of which no warning was given. If these were the facts, as the jury found them to be, he was entitled to recover. It was his right to drive on any part of the street, subject to the superior right of the defendant to the use of its track, and he should have had warning and ample time to get off the track. If, as testified to by the defendant’s witnesses, the plaintiff had warning by gong, and turned so as to clear the track, and then suddenly turned back on the track in front of. the car, his negligence would be a bar to recovery. This issue of fact is all there was in the case.
The judgment is affirmed.