Burr v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

This action was brought to recover compensation for injuries sustained by the plaintiff, while a passenger on a train of the defendant company, by being thrown down, as is alleged, by the motion of the train in starting from the station at Barnegat pier, while she was in the act of changing her seat from one side of the car to the other for the purpose of looking out of the window.

In the trial court the plaintiff recovered a verdict for .$7,208.

A rule to show cause was granted why the verdict should not be set aside.

The reasons relied…