Legal Question in Personal Injury in Rhode Island

If a person gets hurt in a train station, can this person sue the train station?

what happen was that a man was boarding a train when started to move, and a guard on the train pulled him forward and another one in the platform push him onto the train. a package that this man was carrying fell and exploded because it had fireworks on it, so this explosion cause baggage scales some distance away and tip over this person injuring him because was near the scales. so, does he needs to sue the city or the train station?


Asked on 9/23/08, 8:07 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Jules D'Alessandro D'Alessandro & Wright

Re: If a person gets hurt in a train station, can this person sue the train station?

Your question is the facts of Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co., 249 N.Y. 511, 164 N.E. 564 N.Y. 1928 October 09, 1928. If you are a law student or studying law, you don't get A's for creativity. Do your own homework.

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Answered on 9/24/08, 8:54 am


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