Polis v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.

Citations

• 273 Pa. 591
• 117 A. 415
• 1922 Pa. LEXIS 625

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Passenger — Injury to hand — Sudden closing of car door.</p> <p>In an action against a railroad company by a passenger for an injury to her hand, a nonsuit is properly entered, where the evidence is that plaintiff when about to light from the platform of a standing train, placed one of her hands on a door jamb of the car on which she was riding, that the door closed, injurying the hand, and the only evidence as to the cause of the door closing is a statement by plaintiff that a man whom she described as the conductor, opened the door after the hand was pinched and said: “I am sorry, the door slipped out of my hand.”</p>