McKeown v. Northwestern Pacific Railroad

THE COURT.

An action to recover for personal injuries in which a judgment was entered for the plaintiff.

The plaintiff, who was about 45 years of age, had for several years commuted daily from Mill Valley to San Francisco. It was her custom to board defendant railroad company’s electric train at its station at Mill Valley and proceed by a connecting boat to San Francisco. The station was the end of the line, and defendant’s trains ran from Sausalito to Mill Valley and then returned. At the Mill Valley station the defendant had provided concrete platforms on both sides and between the tracks.…