Meyer v. Michigan Central Railroad

On December 25, 1909, plaintiff, who was a resident of Chicago, took passage on one of defendant’s local trains at 3:15 in the afternoon to come to Three Oaks, in this State. He sat in the smoking car until the train was within about two miles of his destination, when he got up and started for the coach in the rear, while the train was running at the rate of 40 miles an hour. When he got upon the platform there was a “lurch or jerk” of the train, and he slipped and fell to the ground, thereby sustaining serious and permanent injuries. The negligence which he relies on was the failure of…