Needle v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Bok, P. J.,

Mr; and Mrs. Needle boarded the race train from a track in Delaware and arrived at Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, at about 6 o’clock on the afternoon of June 5, 1950. They were on the last car of the second section, and the train was so long that the steps of this car came to rest above a brick extension of the regular wooden platform.

Judge, jury, parties, and counsel went to the station and walked to a point designated by plaintiffs as the spot where Mrs. Needle fell. The judge measured the height above the rail of both the wooden and the brick platforms, and found that both…