Zelman v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On defendant’s rule to show cause why plaintiff’s verdict should not he set aside.
1Opinion of the Court
*58The opinion of the court was delivered by
Trenchard, J.
The plaintiff beflow, a woman about twenty-seven years old, was injured while stepping from a moving train of the defendant railroad company at “Park Place” station, Fewark, Few Jersey (the train consisting of several steel cars, the doors of which were opened by pneumatic pressure and running between Few York City and Fewark).
A verdict was rendered for the plaintiff at the Essex Circuit, and the defendant obtained this rule to show cause why such verdict should not be set aside.
We are of the opinion that the trial judge should have…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Solomon v. Manhattan Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Mearns v. Central Railroad of New JerseyNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- Hannon v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Elger v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Hooker v. BlairMichigan Supreme Court · 1915
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- Houston v. Delaware, L. & W. R.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1921
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