Fischer v. City of Philadelphia

Bok, P. J.,

On N ovember 15,1949, plaintiff was on a subway train of the transportation company after donating some of his blood at a hospital.

The train was crowded and he had to stand. During the journey he felt weak and nauseated, and deciding that he should sit down, left the train at the North Philadelphia subway station in order to rest on one of the benches there. While walking towards the bench, a brown haze came over his vision, he lost consciousness, and awoke lying face down at the bottom of the unused train pit on the opposite side of the platform.

This pit was somewhere between five…