Legal Opinion

Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Griswold

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided January 16, 1920No. 10,141PublishedCited by 9 opinions

From Delaware Circuit Court; William A. Thompson, Judge. Action by Lewis D. Griswold ag’ainst the Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company and Edward Kindlesparker. From a judgment for plaintiff against the railroad company, with no finding as to Kindlesparker, the defendant railroad appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtMcMahan, J.

—Appellee Griswold, while a guest in an automobile owned and operated by Henry Sanders, was injured by a collision between a train of cars owned by appellant, which was backed against said automobile at the crossing of appellant’s railroad and Windsor street, in the city of Montpelier. The complaint is in three paragraphs. The facts as alleged in the first and second paragraphs are in substance the same as are set out in the complaint in the case of Lake Erie, etc., R. Co. v. Sanders (1920), post 283, 125 N. E. 793; the only material difference being that the flagman, Kindlesparker, is made a…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Doremus v. RootWashington Supreme Court · 1901
  2. Fonda v. St. Paul City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1898
  3. City of South Bend v. TurnerIndiana Supreme Court · 1901
  4. City of Anderson v. FlemingIndiana Supreme Court · 1903
  5. Childress v. Lake Erie & Western RailroadIndiana Supreme Court · 1914

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Sibbach v. Wilson & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
  2. West v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1950
  3. Wasmuth-Endicott Co. v. KarstIndiana Court of Appeals · 1922
  4. City of Valparaiso v. KinneyIndiana Court of Appeals · 1921
  5. Lafayette Street Railway, Inc. v. UllrichIndiana Court of Appeals · 1929

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