Durr v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.

The plaintiff fell while walking on a street in the city of Rome, at a place where such street is crossed by the tracks of the defendant's railroad. This action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries received by such fall. At the crossing there are four sets of railroad tracks numbered one, two, three and four from the south. The sidewalk, as it approaches the crossing, is surfaced with gravel. The defendant, a few months previous to the accident, had raised its tracks and on each side of each rail it had placed plank level with the top of the rails. Between the plank, and also…