Pangborn v. Central Railroad Co. of NJ

The opinion of the court was delivered by

William J.

Brennan, Jr., J. Three high school boys, walking to their homes from school along their usual route which would take them across defendant’s tracks at the Washington Avenue crossing at the east end of defendant’s Dunellen passenger station, passed between the westbound station and a newsstand and thence walked 123 feet down the platform, a pavement at grade 10 to 12% feet wide, to the crossing, where they stopped and waited within the boundaries of the sidewalk because a long, fast and noisy westbound freight was passing through on Track 2.…