O'Donnell v. Kansas City, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — No». W. B. Teasdcde, Judge. The peremptory instructions for defendant should have been given.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — No». W. B. Teasdcde, Judge. The peremptory instructions for defendant should have been given. Snyder v. Railroad, 60' Mo. • 413; Stringer v. Railroad, 96 Mo. 299. It is the settled law everywhere that where a party knowingly connives with the trainmen to secure a free ride, and thus intentionally defrauds the railway company of its customary charges, such person acquires none of the rights of a passenger, but is a trespasser, or at best, a bare licensee, to whom no duty is owed except to refrain from willful or intentional injury. Berry v.. Railroad, 124…
1Opinion of the CourtValliant, J.
Plaintiff recovered a judgment for $2,500 as damages for injuries sustained by him in a train wreck on defendant’s road. The trains in the wreck belonged to the Chicago & Alton Railway Com*113pany, the lessee of the defendant’s railroad. The appeal was taken by the defendant to this court because there is a constitutional question in the case, that is, the defendant, the lessor, contends that so much of section 1060', Revised Statutes 1899-, on which this suit is founded, which declares that the owner of a railroad in this State which leases its road to a corporation of another State “shall…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Wilton v. Middlesex RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Whitehead v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1889
- Reynolds v. St. Louis Transit Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1905
- Markey v. Louisiana & Missouri River RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1904
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- Youmans v. Wabash RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910
- Graves v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1938
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