Szuwalla Et Ux. v. Reading Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Dbew,

Miquon is a small suburban community on the Norris-town branch of defendant’s railroad, where it maintains a station, with a platform and shelter on each side of its double tracks which run north and south parallel with the Schuylkill River. A crosswalk, approximately level with the tops of the rails, connects the two platforms.

At about midnight, on July 4, 1935, plaintiffs’ twenty-one-year-old daughter, intending to take a northbound local train to Conshohocken, arrived on the west, platform. The train had already reached the station, and was then standing on the…