Yocum v. Philadelphia & West Chester Traction Co.

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 510
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 289

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Street railways — Station—Passenger—Palling down stairway.</p> <p>In an action by a woman passenger against a street railway company to recover damages for personal injuries the ease is for the jury, and a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained, where the evidence tends to show that the plaintiff at a station descended a flight of steps to the train floor, that when she reached this floor she faced two exits one of which opened on to the train shed, and the other on a dark stairway to the cellar, and that going through the open doorway to the cellar she fell and injured herself.</p> <p>In such a case a jury might well find that a stairway rso easily accessible by the public, and so manifestly dangerous as the one into which plaintiff fell, should be protected either by having the door locked for employees’ use only, or so well lighted as to advise strangers that it was not an exit to the street or platform.</p>