Johnston v. Director General

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

Plaintiff:, a passenger on a local vestibuled train of defendant company leaving the City of Pittsburgh at 5:35 on the evening of December 13, 1918, was injured, on reaching her destination, by falling through an open trapdoor in the vestibule platform of the car, while passing from the car to the station platform. She recovered a verdict for $5,000 and, upon the court below discharging defendant’s rule for judgment notwithstanding the verdict; and entering judgment thereon, this appeal followed.

The accident occurred at Wilkinsburg, where the station platform is…