Rivers v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Voorhees, J.

This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court -removing a judgment for the plaintiff for $2,000 for personal injuries..

The errors assigned are refusals to nonsuit and to direct a verdict for the defendant.

The plaintiff, in company .with one Munn, about eleven o’clock at night, boarded one of the defendant’s trains at its Newark station to be carried to Jersey City. The train consisted of six cars, an express caí and combination passenger and baggage car, not vestibuled, three passenger coaches, each vestibuled, and a Pullman car vestibuled.…