Morey v. New York Central Railroad

The action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff on July 1, 1925, just before noon, while she was alighting from a train operated by the defendant at the station at Poughkeepsie. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant was negligent in permitting this train to become dangerously overcrowded and that the rush of passengers to get off the train at Poughkeepsie caused her to be thrown from her *211feet as she was in the act of alighting upon the station platform. Plaintiff testified that she was a school teacher in the city of New York, forty-three years…