Lake Shore Electric Ry. Co. v. Shepherd

The railway company claims that the transfer of passengers from the one car to the other was necessitated by an emergency which the railway company did not create and could not obviate, and that it had absolutely no control over the sidewalk, which was constructed and maintained by the city of Sandusky and was presumed to be and was apparently in good condition.

Counsel for the railway says in their brief:

“It was a reasonable pathway; it was available for use; it was designed to be walked upon by travelers, and therefore to ask these passengers to travel over that walk and take a car waiting…