Winter v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Pearson, J.:

The substantial question is whether plaintiff has alleged a cause of action against defendant for injuries sustained when a train car door closed on plaintiff’s hand while he was about to go from one car to another. The declaration discloses that plaintiff boarded a train in defendant’s railroad station in Wilmington. After the train started, he discovered that it was bound for a different destination than he had intended. When the conductor learned this, *205he offered to have the train stopped to let plaintiff off at defendant’s yards near Wilmington so that he might return to the…