Hassan v. Reading Company

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Plaintiff was a passenger on a railroad train operated by defendant and when about to alight therefrom at a station platform had several fingers of her left hand crushed between the jamb and the door of one of the coaches. In an action to recover damages for the injuries then sustained she contended that the train was so negligently operated by defendant’s employes that it was caused to start while she was endeavoring to alight and before she had a reasonable opportunity to descend from the platform of the car and started so suddenly and with such a jerk that the…