Evans v. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad

The female plaintiff tripped and fell on the location of the defendant’s railroad in or near its station at Winthrop Centre late in the evening of May 20, 1929. The tracks at the station run approximately north and south, Boston bound trains using the eastern, Lynn bound the western, track. Jefferson Street comes to a dead end at the eastern line of the location substantially opposite the station waiting room which stands west of the tracks. The northern sidewalk of Jefferson Street is closed by a turnstile gate from the station platform, which precludes entrance. A woven wire fence blocks…