Beard v. Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers R. R.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Cabe. Pica, the general issue, and trial by jury, December Term, 1874, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show, that on the 26th of June, 1870, she went on defendant’s cars from Barnet to Wells River, and intended to return the same afternoon on the regular train north, but failed to reach the station at Wells River in time to take that train; that on inquiry, she was informed that an extra train would go north between nine and ten…
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Cabe. Pica, the general issue, and trial by jury, December Term, 1874, Caledonia County, Ross, J., presiding. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show, that on the 26th of June, 1870, she went on defendant’s cars from Barnet to Wells River, and intended to return the same afternoon on the regular train north, but failed to reach the station at Wells River in time to take that train; that on inquiry, she was informed that an extra train would go north between nine and ten o’clock that evening, and that she could take that train if she was at the depot at the time of its arrival; that for that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
Access to and exit from, the railroad side of the depot by persons taking and leaving the cars at Wells River village, were by means of flights of stairs between the street and that side of the depot. There is no question as to the right of the plaintiff to be at the depot and on the platform, and to leave it and go to' the street for the purpose and at the time she was there and did what is stated in the exceptions. Nor is there any question as to the duty of the defendant to do what was reasonably necessai’y on the depot premises, to…
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