Levine v. Interborough Rapid Transit Co.

The petitioner alleges that on March 30, 1931, while attempting to board a car of one of the Interborough Rapid *897Transit Company’s trains running into Fourteenth street at Union Square, the door of the car suddenly closed and pinned her between the door and the side of the car, causing her to sustain injuries. She also alleges that the accident was due to the company’s negligence in failing to provide a catch or spring in the door to prevent its swinging and obstructing passengers in their egress from or ingress to the car. On May 12, 1931, the petitioner, by the service of a summons and…