Dodge v. Boston & Bangor Steamship Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while going ashore from one of the defendant’s steamboats. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who, after a verdict for the plaintiff, allowed a bill of exceptions, which, so far as material, was as follows. The following facts were undisputed.
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Tort for personal injuries occasioned to the plaintiff while going ashore from one of the defendant’s steamboats. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., who, after a verdict for the plaintiff, allowed a bill of exceptions, which, so far as material, was as follows. The following facts were undisputed. The defendant was, in 1887, a common carrier of freight and passengers by water, owning a line of steamboats plying between Boston and Bangor, Maine, stopping at intermediate places on the Penobscot Bay and River. The defendant’s steamboats usually left Boston at about five o’clock in…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
This case presents an important question as to the rights and duties of passengers and common carriers in reference to egress from and ingress to the vehicle of transportation at intermediate points upon a journey. When one has made a contract for passage upon a vehicle of a common carrier, and has presented himself at the proper place to be transported, his right to care and protection begins, and ordinarily it continues until he has arrived at his destination, and reached the point where the carrier is accustomed to receive and discharge passengers. So long as he stands strictly in this…
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