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The law of the road

Note 312 — Chapter VII · STATIONS AND STARTING.

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Crafter v. Metropolitan Rw. Co., L. R., 1 C. P. 300. Where on the platform there were two doors in close proximity to each other, the one for necessary purposes, had painted over it the words “For gentlemen,” the other had over it “Lamp room.” The plaintiff having occasion to go to the former, inquired its whereabouts and was directed to it: by mistake he opened the door of the lamp room, fell down some stairs, and was injured: Held, that in the absence of evidence that the place was more than ordinarily dangerous, a nonsuit was right. Toomey v. London B. & S. C., 3 C. B. (N. S.), 146.

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