Acton v. Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

In this action the plaintiffs recovered for injuries to the wife plaintiff. The refusal of the court to enter judgment for the defendant n. o. v. is the error assigned.

On August 1, 1937 plaintiff, Margaret Acton, then 56 years of age, with her husband and son, boarded a passenger train at Camden and arrived at Atlantic City, their destination, about 11:00 A. M. The train was made up of ten steel passenger coaches of the vestibule type; the plaintiffs were riding in the fourth car from the rear of the train. Mrs. Acton testified that when the train stopped, she went to the…