Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. King

Minor W. Milwee, Justice.

Appellee, Simon King, .brought this action in the Tell Circuit Court, Danville District, against appellants, Chicago, Bock Island & Pacific Railway Co. and Larry Smith, train conductor, to recover damages for personal injuries which appellee sustained in a fall from one of the railway company’s passenger trains on. July 1, 1945.

Appellee alleged in his complaint that, while riding as a fare paying passenger on a train of the- company traveling west from Little Bock, Arkansas, he had no seat and an agent of the railroad company in the operation- of the train negligently…