King v. Ohio & M. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
Chancery. Intervening petition of Matilda Wingate, administratrix.
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The claim in this case is for damages on account of the death of Alexander Wingate, who, on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1882, while a passenger in the cars of the defendant, going from St. Louis to Louisville, was shot and killed by one Haynes, a fellow-passenger. Some time after the departure of the train from St. Louis, Haynes, who had been drinking freely, was transferred from a sleeping-car by the conductor and porter of that car to the coach at the rear of the train, in which Wingate was riding, and in which Haynes had been before going into the sleeper. The reasons for this transfer…
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- New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad v. BurkeMississippi Supreme Court · 1876
- Britton v. Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line Railway Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1883
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