Gibson v. New York Consolidated Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, New York Consolidated Eailroad Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 3d day of January, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury for $500.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The plaintiff with three children boarded one of the defendant’s cars at Coney Island. After the passengers were in the car and she was seated she ascertained that she was upon the wrong train and started out with her children. In stepping off the platform of the car her foot passed down between the step of the car and the station platform, injuring her leg and thereafter causing a miscarriage, as she alleged. She swears that the distance between the edge of' the step and the station platform is eight and a half inches. Her son, who was with her, swears to a distance of seven and a…
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