Frazier v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for injuries caused by the plaintiff stumbling over a wooden platform about sixteen feet square raised from four to eight inches above the concrete floor of the station of the Boston Terminal Company in Boston after the plaintiff had alighted from a train of the defendant and was passing through that station on her way to the street.
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Tort for injuries caused by the plaintiff stumbling over a wooden platform about sixteen feet square raised from four to eight inches above the concrete floor of the station of the Boston Terminal Company in Boston after the plaintiff had alighted from a train of the defendant and was passing through that station on her way to the street. Writ dated October 5, 1899. In the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., it appeared, that the station was owned and operated under the provisions of St. 1896, c. 516. The judge ruled, that the plaintiff could not maintain her action, on the ground, that under…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
In this case the plaintiff sues for an injury caused by her falling over an unguarded wooden platform, about six inches in height, in that part of the south terminal station in the city of Boston lying between the waiting rooms on the one side and the fence which shuts in the tracks on the other side. The unguarded platform which caused the accident was stated, at the argument, to be the floor of a booth for the sale of articles, which was then being built.
It is stated in the report “ that the station in which the plaintiff was injured was owned and operated and controlled exclusively by the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Feital v. Middlesex RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Moore v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Littlejohn v. Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Hill Manufacturing Co. v. Boston & Lowell RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
3Cited by10 opinions
- Sharpe v. Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
- Hunt v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Commonwealth v. Boston Terminal Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Bartol v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Ward v. Boston Terminal Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
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