Joseph Hagan v. Providence and Worcester R. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
This was an action of trespass on the case, commenced in the Court of Common Pleas, wherein judgment was submitted and an appeal entered in this Court.
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This was an action of trespass on the case, commenced in the Court of Common Pleas, wherein judgment was submitted and an appeal entered in this Court. The declaration set forth that the defendants, being common carriers of goods and passengers, contracted with the plaintiff to transport him to a given place, but that, in violation of their contract, “ by the hasty, imprudent and improper .conduct of the company by their servants and agents,” the plaintiff was wrongfully expelled from the defendant’s cars before reaching his place of destination, and was greatly injured in person, and…
1Opinion of the CourtBraytoN, J.
The plaintiff in this cases move that the verdict rendered by the jury be set aside and a new trial granted — because the Judge at tbe trial instructed” tbe jury “ that if the acts of the agent of the defendants, complained of by the plaintiff in his declaration, were done and committed by .said agent in the line of his duty, and within the scope of his authority and course of employment, still the defendants might not be liable to the same extent as the agent would be personally liable.”
The exceptions to the charge of tlie Court are not very clearly stated in the plaintiff’s motion, nor is…
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