Rager v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 229 Pa. 335
• 78 A. 827
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 495

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Passenger—Standing on platform — Contributory negligence.</p> <p>Where a passenger stands on the. platform of a vestibule car when there is standing room inside the car, and vacant seats in the forward car, and is asked by the brakeman to go inside, but declines to do so, and shortly thereafter, when the doors are opened upon approaching a station, the passenger falls from the car in some unexplained way, no damages can be recovered from the railroad company for his death resulting from the fall.</p>