Tittlebaum v. Pennsylvania Railroad

The appellant, Ida Tittlebaum, a young woman twenty- three years of age, who had bought a ticket entitling her to passage on appellee’s train from Baltimore to Philadelphia, boarded the latter’s train at Baltimore, at 2:10 p. m., on November 19th, 1932. She was accompanied by Thomas J. Hutson. They occupied a seat near the center of the coach on the right-hand side. The appellant was seated next to the window and Hutson next to the aisle. About fifteen or twenty minutes after the train had left Baltimore, going at the usual rgte of speed and when between Back River and Chesaco, a window on…