Cazneau v. Fitchburg Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for personal injuries, sustained on July 9, 1892, by falling upon a stake on the station grounds of the defendant at Waverly. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The station at which the plaintiff alighted from the defendant’s train was one which neither she nor her companion had visited before. It stood on the southerly side of the tracks, and the station grounds were bounded on the south and west by highways. There was a wrought gravel walk, with a curbstone, between the station and the tracks, and leading westerly, parallel with the tracks, out to the street. This walk was the only path made by the defendant for persons walking to and from the station. Upon leaving the train the plaintiff and her companion alighted upon this walk, and went thence…
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