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· 2/28/1920

Hall v. Lehigh Valley Railroad

Citations

  • 74 Pa. Super. 52
  • 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 89

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Passengers—Safe place to alight — Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by-stepping in a bole, while alighting from the defendant’s train, the case is for the jury and a verdict for the plaintiff will be sustained, whete the evidence establishes the fact that the plaintiff stepped into a bole in tbe footway over tbe tracks leading to tbe platform of tbe defendant’s station and was injured.</p> <p>Under sucb circumstances defendant’s negligence and plaintiff’s contributory negligence were for tbe jury.</p>

Judges: Head, Henderson, Keller, Linn, Orlady, Porter, Trexler

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