Pierce Et Vir v. D. L. W. R. R. Co.

Defendant appeals and complains of the refusal of its motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdicts for the plaintiffs, in their suit for damages for injuries to the wife-plaintiff, sustained in alighting from a passenger train in the railway station at Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Pierce had become a passenger at Syracuse, New York; her destination was Scranton; she changed cars at Binghamton, New York, and boarded a fifteen car train which made no stops between Binghamton and Scranton. The train arrived at about 3:35 A.M., February 19, 1945. The car in which she was a passenger is…