Seymour v. Citizens' Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Gircmt Court.—Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. (1) The plaintiff having been received as a passenger upon defendant’s car and on the step of the front platform, and being ready to pay his fare as such, and defendant having provided no better or safer place for plaintiff to ride as such passenger, he, as such passenger on said step, was entitled to the highest practical care for his protection there. Wilmotv.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Gircmt Court.—Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. (1) The plaintiff having been received as a passenger upon defendant’s car and on the step of the front platform, and being ready to pay his fare as such, and defendant having provided no better or safer place for plaintiff to ride as such passenger, he, as such passenger on said step, was entitled to the highest practical care for his protection there. Wilmotv. Railroad, 16 S. W. Rep. 500; Wagner v. Railroad, 97 Mo. 521; McGee v. Railroad, 92 Mo. 217; Muehlhausen v. Railroad, 91 Mo. 344; Burns v. Railroad, 50 Mo. 140. (2)…
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, P. J.
The plaintiff brought this suit against the defendant, a street railway company, to recover daniages for injuries which he sustained while a passenger on one of defendant’s cars. -At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the defendant interposed a demurrer thereto, which was sustained, and the plaintiff appealed.
The evidence discloses the following facts: The defendant’s road runs east and west along Easton avenue in the city of St. Louis. At the time of the accident the defendant was converting its horse railroad into a cable road. The accident occurred on Sunday, the eighteenth of…
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- Maguire v. Middlesex RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
- Nolan v. . Brooklyn City Newtown R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Muehlhausen v. St. Louis RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
- Topeka City Railway Co. v. HiggsSupreme Court of Kansas · 1888
- Willmott v. Corrigan Consolidated Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1891
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