Robinson v. Boston & Maine Railroad

The plaintiff, intending to take a train for Concord at Laconia, arrived at the Laconia station immediately after the arrival of the train. He entered upon the station platform near its easterly end. The train was on a track at his right side and its rear end was about twenty-five feet ahead of him as he proceeded towards it. He undertook to board the last car of the train at its rear entrance on the side towards the station platform. The car was equipped with vestibule doors and the door at this entrance was closed. A vestibule door when closed is practically flush with the side of the car.…