Reynolds v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Thirteenth District Court, Parish, of St. Landry. Hudspeth, J. It is the duty of railway companies to keep in a safe condition their premises, depots and approaches from thence to their passenger cars. Pierce on Bail ways, pp. 275-6. The law implies in the contract of carrying passengers by railroad companies that they shall provide safe and convenient egress and regress from the -lines of their road.
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APPEAL from the Thirteenth District Court, Parish, of St. Landry. Hudspeth, J. It is the duty of railway companies to keep in a safe condition their premises, depots and approaches from thence to their passenger cars. Pierce on Bail ways, pp. 275-6. The law implies in the contract of carrying passengers by railroad companies that they shall provide safe and convenient egress and regress from the -lines of their road. Digress of American Law Register, p. 786, No. 4. It is the duty of such companies to keep tlieir depot, platforms and approaches from their passenger trains lighted up at night.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
The plaintiff aud his wife claim damages of tlie defendant company for injuries suffered hy the wife aud caused by the alleged negligence of the company.
Mr, Reynolds, with his wife, sister-in-law, three small children aud two colored attendants, had purchased tickets as passengers on the defendant road, and were at the depot at Morrogh Station for the purpose of boarding the east-bound train, which was duo at that station at about midnight, but, being-behind time, did not reach there till about two o’clock in the morning.
Between the depot and…
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