Flanagan v. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 47, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment o£ C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1896, No. 47, of nonsuit. Trespass for personal injuries. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff was injured at about half past six o’clock on the morning of December 11, 1894, at Grays Ferry Station. He lived at Chester, and was employed at a coal car works at 39th street and Grays Ferry road, on the east side of the Schuylkill river in Philadelphia.
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Appeal, No. 47, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment o£ C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., Jan. T., 1896, No. 47, of nonsuit. Trespass for personal injuries. At the trial it appeared that plaintiff was injured at about half past six o’clock on the morning of December 11, 1894, at Grays Ferry Station. He lived at Chester, and was employed at a coal car works at 39th street and Grays Ferry road, on the east side of the Schuylkill river in Philadelphia. For about two months prior to the accident plaintiff had been in the habit of leaving Chester at 5:50 each morning, and arriving at Grays Ferry…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Fell,
The reciprocal duties of railroad companies and of passengers alighting from or getting on cars at stations or stopping places have been very clearly defined in the decisions. It is the duty of the railroad company to provide a safe and convenient means of passage to and from its passenger cars, and it is the duty of a passenger to comply with the company’s reasonable rules and regulations for entering and leaving the cars, by using the way provided. Knowledge by a passenger that a safe and convenient platform has been provided is notice to him of a rule that…
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