Rodick v. Maine Central Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions by defendant. This is an action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff. The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant company’s steamboats, which landed at defendant’s wharf at Bar Harbor, and in passing on and along said wharf, on her way to take a public conveyance, slipped upon ice and fell sustaining the injuries complained of.
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On motion and exceptions by defendant. This is an action on the case to recover damages for personal injuries received by the plaintiff. The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant company’s steamboats, which landed at defendant’s wharf at Bar Harbor, and in passing on and along said wharf, on her way to take a public conveyance, slipped upon ice and fell sustaining the injuries complained of. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $4,830.00. The defendant filed exceptions to the admission of two photographs of the locus, and to the refusal of the presiding Justice to…
1Opinion of the CourtCornish, J.
On the evening of February 8, 1911, the plaintiff, a passenger on a steamboat of the defendant company, landed at *532its wharf in Bar Harbor, and while passing along and upon the wharf on her way to take a public conveyance, slipped upon ice, fell and was seriously injured. She obtained a verdict of four thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and the defendant has ■brought the case to this court on motion and exception's.
Motion.
The wharf of the defendant company corresponded to the station grounds of a railroad for the arrival and departure of passengers. It covered considerable space, a…
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