Plaster v. Akron Union Passenger Depot Co.

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment awarded on a verdict of a jury in an action in which Clarence D. Plaster, the appellee, was plaintiff, and the appellant herein, The Akron Union Passenger Depot Company, was defendant.

The appellant, herein called depot company, owned and operated an escalator on its premises for the convenience of persons using the railway passenger depot. The appellee, Clarence Plaster, on July 11, 1952, went to the depot to meet his daughter and her child, who were arriving on a train coming from New York City. While standing on the ascending escalator,…