Legal Opinion
Sassaman v. Pennsylvania R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 12, 1944No. 8408PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant company, brought suit in the District Court for the District of New Jersey to recover damages for injuries sustained by him upon alighting from a passenger train of the defendant company while he was on his way home after having discharged, for the day, the duties of his employment.
The complaint ascribed negligence on the part of the defendant as the cause of the plaintiff’s injuries. Generally stated, the alleged negligence consisted of the defendant’s failure to maintain a station platform, at the situs of the injury to the…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- North Carolina Railroad v. ZacharySupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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3Cited by52 opinions
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