Young v. Old Colony Railroad

We think, upon the facts disclosed in the exceptions, that the plaintiff was not in the exercise of due care. She attempted in broad daylight to cross the track in front of an approaching train, which she saw, and which was only a short distance away, — so near, in fact, that, when she stumbled and fell upon the track, the engine struck her before she could recover herself. It was also due to her own failure to make proper inquiry that she attempted to cross the tracks.at all. She was in the station for fifteen minutes, and might easily have learned by suitable inquiries that the train which…