Bassell v. Hines
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Southern District of Ohio; John E. Safer, Judge. Action at law by John Y. Bassell against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff below, plaintiff in error here, was a passenger on a Pullman chair car arriving in the railway station at Columbus. After the car stopped and the passengers for Columbus were told to alight, he arose from his seat, and, as he walked down the aisle toward the door, stumbled over a hassock or footstool which was in the aisle, or projected into it, and fell and received the injury for which he sought to recover in this action. He alleges that the insufficient lighting of the car co-operated with the careless placing or leaving of the obstacle to constitute…
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