Kidwell v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Lynch, Judge:

This is an action of trespass on the case for damages. The declaration alleges that the plaintiff had become and was at the time of the injury a passenger in and at the defendant’s railroad station in Cincinnati, Ohio, and as such entitled to transportation therefrom to Huntington, West Virginia, and to that degree of care due from carrier to passenger; and that, while sustaining such relation, he was assaulted and injured by an officer of the defendant company.

There was a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff. Though urging in its brief only two grounds for reversal,…