Pennsylvania Railroad v. Hoover

The declaration in this case alleges that while the plaintiff was in the defendant’s railroad station in Atlantic City, New Jersey, waiting as a passenger to board a train upon which he was to1 travel to Baltimore, Maryland, he was pushed from the station platform under a moving train and seriously injured as a result of the defendant’s negligence. It is charged that the defendant was negligent in that it permitted the platform “to he overcrowded with passengers. without proper police protection, and not having proper guard rails” to prevent passengers from being pushed from it while awaiting…