Murray v. Boston & Maine Railroad

Mrs. Murray, an active woman sixty-nine years of age and in excellent health, claims that she fell from the bottom step of a car on die defendant’s tram while attempting to board it at Claremont Junction, due as she says, to die fact that the defendant’s trainman negligently failed to assist her. She testified that she asked the trainman to get her bags, which were just outside the station door, and upon his brusquely telling her to get aboard, she observed that “ diis looks like a very high step [but] I will try it. ” Then, supposing that he would be nearby to help her, she made the attempt,…