Kingsley v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Ou error to the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
*537The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mtktuen, J.
While attempting to leave the defendant’s passenger coach in the terminal at Iloboken, the plaintiff, a lady over sixty years of age, misjudged the distance between the step of the car and the station platform, and, instead of placing her foot upon the platform, set it between the step and the platform, and, falling, sustained the injuries for which she claims damages in this suit.
With a party of three, consisting of her son, and Dr. Davidson and his wife, she boarded the train at Grove street station, a suburban station of Newark, and…
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