HASTINGS v. BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD


332 Mass. 42 (1954)

123 N.E.2d 211

JENNIE HASTINGS vs. BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

December 16, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley G. Barker, for the defendant.

Thomas S. Carey, for the plaintiffs.

Present: Qua, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


LUMMUS, J.

In these cases the plaintiff Jennie Hastings was given a verdict for $22,000, and the plaintiff William A. Hastings was given a verdict for $2,000. The evidence was substantially as follows. At half past ten o'clock in the morning of July 31, 1945, Jennie Hastings arrived by the defendant railroad at its station in Lynn. A flight of stairs, in the control of the defendant, led from the platform where the tracks were to the street below. While descending...

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