Hildebrand v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaefer,

Plaintiff brought this suit to recover damages for injuries which she received as a passenger on defendant’s train, when, so she alleged, she was forcibly thrown to the steps leading from the platform of the car in which she was riding, and from there to the station platform, as a result of the violent jolting of the train. The jury found a verdict in her favor, the court entered judgment non obstante veredicto for defendant and plaintiff appeals.

Plaintiff and her sister had boarded the train at Kiskiminetas Junction to ride to Garver’s Ferry station, two miles…