Illinois Cent. R. v. Davidson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action on the case by Wilbur F. Davidson against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for damages for personal injuries. This ease has been tried three times, and is here the second time.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action on the case by Wilbur F. Davidson against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for damages for personal injuries. This ease has been tried three times, and is here the second time. See 12 C. C. A. 118, 64 Fed. 301. The action is on the case for personal injury suffered by the defendant in error, Wilbur F. Davidson, as a passenger, while leaving a suburban train of the plaintiff in error at Hyde Park station, Chicago, February 27, 1893. On the first trial the jury disagreed; on the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
Before entering upon the particular questions presented, it is important to observe that the duty of a common carrier of passengers requires the exercise of the highest practicable care for their safety, and that in some measure or degree the duty continues until the passenger has left the premises of the carrier. If, therefore, it be true, as contended, that the plaintiff in error had provided a suitable and safe platform on the west side of its tracks at Hyde Park, by which it was intended that passengers by its suburban trains should make their exit, and that the platform in question,…
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