Hirschberg v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad

The defendant maintained across its tracks, and wholly on its property, a covered foot bridge which the public customarily used as a “short-cut” from a public street parallel to the tracks and on the opposite side from its station to another street on the station.side of the tracks. A conductor from the roof of the bridge became broken, allowing water to accumulate and freeze at the foot of the steps leading to the bridge. The plaintiff, using the bridge as a convenient crossover, while on a shopping excursion, slipped on the ice and was injured. The trial judge *159in effect ruled that the…