Clunn v. Williamsport & North Branch Railroad

Citations

• 39 Pa. Super. 591
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 541

Syllabus

<p>Railroads — Passengers—Injury at station — Question for jury.</p> <p>1. Where a passenger alights at a station, and waits a short time until</p> <p>the train starts again, and then proceeds to leave the station platform while there was still a considerable crowd of people upon it, and falls over a movable step or stool, left on the platform by the station master or his agent, it is for the jury to determine whether the company was negligent in failing to remove the step or stool or leave anyone in charge of it after the train had departed and it could no longer serve any useful purpose on the platform. '•</p> <p>2. A person entitled to passage on a train between two places is entitled to the protection due to a passenger from the starting point to the appropriate and usual stopping place at the final destination, and until he has left the carrier’s depot, station or premises or has had reasonable time and opportunity to do so.</p>