Jordan v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff, on Sunday, August 13, 1893, by falling through a hole in the floor of a room in the defendant’s station in Holbrook. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The only exception in this case is to the refusal of the judge to rule that upon all the evidence the plaintiff cannot recover. The plaintiff went to the defendant’s passenger station in Holbrook to take a train for South Brain-tree. She bought a ticket and passed from the ladies’ waiting room into the ladies’ toilet room, which opened out of the waiting room. There was no light in any part of the station except the ticket office. The door of the toilet room was open. The plaintiff had often been there before, and was familiar with the place. She had occasion to use the toilet room, and when…
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