People v. Jillson
New York Supreme Court
This was a certiorari to the court of sessions of Genesee county. It appeared, by the return to the said writ, that Samuel Jillson was, on the 26th day of September, 1854, indicted in the said Court of Sessions, for an assault and battery on James McCormick, and that the indictment was tried in the said court on the 28th day of September, 1855 ; upon which trial the following bill of exceptions was taken by the counsel for the defendant, and signed and sealed by the court: “…
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This was a certiorari to the court of sessions of Genesee county. It appeared, by the return to the said writ, that Samuel Jillson was, on the 26th day of September, 1854, indicted in the said Court of Sessions, for an assault and battery on James McCormick, and that the indictment was tried in the said court on the 28th day of September, 1855 ; upon which trial the following bill of exceptions was taken by the counsel for the defendant, and signed and sealed by the court: “ It was admitted, on the part of the people and of the defendant, for the purposes of the said trial, that, during the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mullett, J.
Although the subject matter of the controversy between Jillson and McCormick, in a pecuniary point of view, appears to have been trifling, yet the principles involved in it are of great importance, both to railroad companies and to their passengers. That railroad corporations are to be deemed carriers of passengers, and as such subject to the duties and liabilities, and entitled to the privileges and powers, incident to that employment, seems to be now well settled by various judicial decisions, as well in this country as in England. (Camden and Amboy R. R. and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Camden & Amboy Rail Road & Transportation Co. v. BurkeNew York Supreme Court · 1835
3Cited by2 opinions
- Pease v. . D., L. W.R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Pease v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1886