Sanders v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment for $1,000 damages for personal injuries to the plaintiff from an assault by one Babcock, an intruder, in the defendant’s depot at Torrington, Wyoming. The negligence charged against the defendant, a common carrier, is in failing to protect the plaintiff, a patron, from such assault.

The defendant for reversal relies upon a number of errors. The defendant insists that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict, and that the court erred in overruling defendant’s motion for a directed verdict at the close of the evidence. The defendant…