Wood v. L. & N. R. R.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 99 — Petition Ordinary 1. The carrier owes to the passenger the duty of protecting him from the violence and assaults of his fellow passengers, or intruders, and will be held responsible for neglect in this particular. Quinn v. L. & N. R. R., 17 Ky. Law Rept., 811; Britton v. Atlanta, &c. Air Line R. R. Co., 43 Amer.
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Case 99 — Petition Ordinary 1. The carrier owes to the passenger the duty of protecting him from the violence and assaults of his fellow passengers, or intruders, and will be held responsible for neglect in this particular. Quinn v. L. & N. R. R., 17 Ky. Law Rept., 811; Britton v. Atlanta, &c. Air Line R. R. Co., 43 Amer. Rept., 752, and authorities there cited. 1. The instructions in this case taken together are substantially a compliance with the rule laid down by this court in the case of Quinn v. L; & N. R. R. (17 Ky. Law Rept., 811), which was a case growing out of the same facts as this…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DuRELLE
delivered the opinion op the court.
Tbe appellants brought suit against appellee for damages, alleging that the appellant, Ella Wood, was a passenger on *705appellee’s 'train, being carried from Louisville to Elizabeth-town, and, being a colored woman, while in the compartment which had, in compliance with the separate coach law and appellee’s regulations’, been assigned to persons of her race, appellee permitted drunken white persons to enter the compartment and use vile, profane and indecent language in the ai>pellant’s presence, to her great annoyance, humiliation and disturbance.
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