Rogers v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

In this action to recover damages for an injury to the plaintiff’s foot, which occurred as he ran across the platform of the defendant’s Government Center subway station toward a waiting train and used the foot to “brake” himself when he saw the doors of the train close, the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict was rightly allowed. Construing the evidence most favorably to the plaintiff (Kingsley v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Authy. 1 Mass. App. Ct. 838 [1973]), and assuming, without deciding, that the defendant *721owed the plaintiff, as a passenger (Warren v. Fitchburg R.R. 8 Allen 227,…