Ardison v. Illinois Central Railroad

The only question presented for our consideration in this case is whether it is negligence per se for a passenger knowingly and voluntarily to alight from a car of a moving steam railroad train without the direction of any agent of the railroad company. The defendant in error did so alight from a train of the plaintiff in error upon which he was a passenger and received serious injuries, for which he recovered a judgment' for $3000, which the Appellate Court affirmed. The accident by which he was injured occurred about half-after seven o’clock in the evening of December 7, 1907. When the…