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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary Deyo, Respondent, v. Rutland Railroad Company, Appellant.
    
      Negligence — railroads — accumulated ice upon car step — passenger who slips thereon and is injured may recover.
    
    
      Deyo v. Rutland R. R. Co., 202 App. Div. 859, affirmed.
    (Argued January 24, 1923;
    decided February 27, 1923.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered July 27, 1922, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict in an action to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of defendant. Plaintiff, a passenger upon one of defendant’s trains, while attempting to alight at a station slipped upon ice which had accumulated upon one of the car steps and, falling, received the injuries complained of.
    
      John M. Cantwell and E. W. Lawrence for appellant.
    
      John E. Judge for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Hogan, Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin and Crane, JJ. Absent: Andrews, J.