Reimard v. Bloomsburg & Sullivan Railroad

Citations

• 228 Pa. 384
• 77 A. 560
• 1910 Pa. LEXIS 492

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Railroads—Passenger—Remote and proximate came.</p> <p>1. Where a railroad company negligently carries a woman passenger beyond the station where she is entitled to alight, and compels her to get off the train at the next station, in a dark night and in a drizzling rain, with two children and a large basket, and because of the mud she cannot reach the highway leading back to her destination, and walks along the tracks which she was told by a bystander was the best way to go, and while thus walking falls and is injured, the company will be liable to her in damages for the injuries sustained.</p> <p>2. In such a case the railroad company ought to have reasonably anticipated that plaintiff would do just what she did. Its own neglect, therefore, was the proximate cause of the injury.</p>