Lou. & Nash. R. R. v. Logan
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 38 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. In ejecting a passenger for disorderly conduct, a railroad company must use reasonable precaution for the passenger’s safety, and if the passenger is in such a drunken condition as to he unable to take care of himself, the company will he liable for injury resulting from putting him off at a place where his condition necessarily exposes him to the danger of being injured by other trains of the company.
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Case 38 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM MARION CIRCUIT COURT. In ejecting a passenger for disorderly conduct, a railroad company must use reasonable precaution for the passenger’s safety, and if the passenger is in such a drunken condition as to he unable to take care of himself, the company will he liable for injury resulting from putting him off at a place where his condition necessarily exposes him to the danger of being injured by other trains of the company. (L. 0. & L. R. R. Co. v. Sullivan, 81 Ky., 624.)
1Opinion of the Court
CHIEE JUSTICE LEWIS
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee, widow of E. Y. Logan, brought this action to recover damages for destruction of his life by the *233alleged willful neglect of the servants of appellant, the material facts of the case being as follows : ■
The deceased, about half past ten o’clock at night, June 19, 1883, at Lebanon, got on a passenger train bound from Louisville to Knoxville, Tenn., to go toa station where he resided, fourteen miles distant. He was at the time intoxicated ; stumbled or slipped and fell on the depot platform;' was helped upon the car platform, and, in…
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- Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railroad v. SullivanCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1884
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