Knight v. Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions, and Motion to set aside the verdict as ■being against the weight of evidence and excessive in amount of damages. Case, for injury received at the slip on the defendants’ wharf in Portland.
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On Exceptions, and Motion to set aside the verdict as ■being against the weight of evidence and excessive in amount of damages. Case, for injury received at the slip on the defendants’ wharf in Portland. The defendants requested the presiding Judge to instruct the jury:—• 1. That the defendants were under no obligations to carry the plaintiff beyond the point at which they regularly received and discharged passengers in Portland : — 2. That, when they had safely carried the plaintiff from their station in Berwick to their station in Portland, and had safely delivered her from their depot in…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
— This was an action on the case against the defendants for negligence.
It appeared in evidence, from the plaintiff, that she, on the 10th Aug., 1866, purchased at Lawrence, Mass., a through ticket from that place to Belfast in this State, for which she paid four dollars; that the ticket so purchased was on one piece of paper, but creased for three different tickets; that one part of the ticket was taken by the conductor on the Boston & Maine Railroad, soon after she entered the ears at Lawrence ; that a second part was taken at South Berwick by the conductor of the defendant corporation, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hood v. New York & New Haven RailroadSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1852
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- Davis v. South Side Elevated RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
- Montgomery & Eufaula Railway Co. v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1884
- Alabama Great Southern R. R. v. ArnoldSupreme Court of Alabama · 1887
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