Bosworth v. Union Railroad Company
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Trespass on the Case for negligence.
1DissentTillinghast, J.
I think this case should have been submitted to the jury.
A strike against the defendant company had been on for some days prior to the happening of the accident in question, accompanied with more or less mob violence, and on the very morning in question the governor of the1 State had ordered a military force to the city of Pawtucket to preserve order and restrain violence against the property and employees of the railroad company, and had issued a proclamation calling'upon persons riotously assembled at Pawtucket to disperse. Early in the morning of June 12, however, a crowd had begun to…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Flint v. Norwich & New York Transportation Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut · 1868
- Tall v. Baltimore Steam Packet Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1899
- Fewings v. MendenhallSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
- Buehler v. Union Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1901