Ohio & Mississippi Railroad v. Hecht

The appellee bought a ticket entitling him to passage on the trains of the appellant, and, while at the appellant’s station at North Vernon, for the purpose of entering one of its trains, as he was entitled to do under the ticket he had purchased, he was injured, without any fault on his part, by stepping into a hole in the platform, which *444the appellant, in disregard of its duty, had negligently permitted to remain unprotected. The complaint thus describes the injury sustained by the appellee, and states the damages occasioned by the wrong of the carrier: “ The plaintiff was violently thrown…