Clark v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad

Plaintiff, a young woman, was assaulted, stabbed, and robbed by 2 assailants, while she sat alone in defendant’s depot, sometime past midnight, after having alighted from defendant’s train on which she had been a passenger for hire. She sued for damages resulting from her injuries. She appeals from judgment for defendant based on jury verdict of no cause for action.

The case was tried in a relatively small county-seat town. On the day trial commenced an article about the case appeared in the local newspaper, containing the following:

“$1.20 TRAIN TICKET &

“$90,000 DAMAGE SUIT

“* * * It is the…