Geisenberger v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 65 Pa. Super. 376
• 1917 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Passengers—Obstruction of passageway in dining car.</p> <p>In an action by a husband and wife against a railroad company to recover damages for personal injuries to the wife, a verdict and judgment for plaintiffs will be sustained where the evidence for the plaintiffs tends to show that the plaintiffs were passengers on a train of the defendant, traveling in a parlor car; that desiring breakfast, they proceeded from the parlor car to the dining car, entering through a narrow passageway; that the passage was dark, the shades of the windows having been drawn; that they were the first passengers who entered the dining car on that day; that, after taking thirty or forty minutes for their breakfast, no one else in the meanwhile excepting the help having entered or left the dining car, they again passed out of the car through the narrow passageway, the shades still being drawn, and each of them in succession tripped upon a curled or doubled up mat lying on the floor of the passageway, with resulting injuries to the wife.</p>