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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