Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Co. v. Lawson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. Action at law to recover damages for personal injury to the ward, Ada M. Lawson. It appears that on May 14, 1903, the order of Royal Neighbors, an auxiliary to the Modern Woodmen, and composed of women, was holding a national convention in the city of Indianapolis, the ward of the defendant in error being in attendance.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. Action at law to recover damages for personal injury to the ward, Ada M. Lawson. It appears that on May 14, 1903, the order of Royal Neighbors, an auxiliary to the Modern Woodmen, and composed of women, was holding a national convention in the city of Indianapolis, the ward of the defendant in error being in attendance. Some time prior to the convention a committee of the society solicited a donation from the plaintiff in error. The committee was informed that the company could not make a donation, but would…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The court submitted to the jury the question whether the company or the excursionists were in control of the cars which collided, by whom they were run and operated, and who had control of the conductors and motormen. The jury was also instructed as a matter of law that the company, having done something it was not obliged to do as a common carrier of passengers, and having made a particular arrangement, as to the carriage, thereby came into the relation of a private carrier to Mrs. Lawson as a passenger, if the jury should find that the company was in…
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