Connors v. Cunard Steamship Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions, one of Contract and the other of Tort, by Alice Connors as administratrix of the estate of Margaret Connors against the Cunard Steamship Company, Limited, a corporation established under the laws of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for removing the plaintiff’s intestate on February 28, 1905, from the defendant’s steamship Ivernia, on which the intestate held a ticket for a passage from Boston to Queenstown.
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Two actions, one of Contract and the other of Tort, by Alice Connors as administratrix of the estate of Margaret Connors against the Cunard Steamship Company, Limited, a corporation established under the laws of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for removing the plaintiff’s intestate on February 28, 1905, from the defendant’s steamship Ivernia, on which the intestate held a ticket for a passage from Boston to Queenstown. Writs dated August 16, 1906. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Brown, J. Against the objection and exception of the plaintiff, the judge…
1Opinion of the CourtLosing, J.
[After the foregoing statement of the case.] The principal question presented by the defendant’s exceptions in the second action is an important one, not directly decided in any case which has come to our attention.
The general rule that a common carrier is bound to accept anybody and everybody who presents himself for transportation and pays the regular fare, has its limitations. A common carrier is bound to care for all who have become its passengers. For that reason not only is it not bound to accept but it is under obligation to refuse to accept as a passenger an insane person without a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Spade v. Lynn & Boston RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Sheridan v. Brooklyn City & Newtown RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1867
- Barney v. Oyster Bay & Huntington Steamboat Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Croom v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1893
- New Orleans, Jackson, & Great Northern Railroad v. StathamMississippi Supreme Court · 1869
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