Lehigh Valley R. v. Stevenson

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

This writ of error is directed to a judgment for the plaintiffs — one a minor, for personal injuries; the other, the father, for medical ex-# penses and loss of earnings of his son — entered on a verdict in a suit based on negligence of the defendant railroad company in operating a train. Referring to the young man as “the plaintiff,” the testimony in his case in chief tended to show that he ran for a train standing at the station at South Plainfield, New Jersey, which he intended to board through one of the doors customarily open on the side away from the station. His…