Robison v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Robison v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Opinion of the Court
The negligence alleged in the statement of claim is that the defendant’s employee ejected the plaintiff’s husband from a train at a dangerous place between stations and upon tracks on which trains were constantly passing. The proofs were that the plaintiff’s husband left the train voluntarily a minute after he had boarded it, at a place where it had stopped at a water tank, and he stood several minutes on the ground near the car from which he had alighted. A half minute after the signal to start had been given and when the train was in motion he attempted to get on the front step of the car. When his hand was extended to seize the hand-rail at the forward end of the car a brakeman who stood on the rear step of the car in front, warned him of the danger, told him to go away or he would get hurt and reached out with one hand and pushed him away. He persisted in his attempt and ran after the car and while reaching for the hand-rail after the car had run a rod he fell but apparently was not injured by the fall. This was the last seen of him until an hour later when his body was found on the tracks, half a mile from the water tank, where he had been injured by another train.
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