Hoar v. Maine Central Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Case. The declaration is as follows : “ In a plea of the case, for that on the eleventh day of December, A. D. 1875, the defendants were the owners and operated a railroad known as the Maine Central Railroad, passing through the towns of Waterville and West Waterville, in the county of Kennebec, and were common carriers of passengers and persons between said Waterville and West Waterville, and were then and there bound and required by law to carry and transport…
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On report. Case. The declaration is as follows : “ In a plea of the case, for that on the eleventh day of December, A. D. 1875, the defendants were the owners and operated a railroad known as the Maine Central Railroad, passing through the towns of Waterville and West Waterville, in the county of Kennebec, and were common carriers of passengers and persons between said Waterville and West Waterville, and were then and there bound and required by law to carry and transport all passengers and other persons lawfully in and upon its said railroad carefully and safely, and with due regard for the…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
The material and substantive allegations in the several counts in the plaintiff’s writ are that the defendants are common carriers-of passengers between Waterville and West Waterville; that as such carriers they are bound to carry all passengers and persons lawfully on their road carefully and safely over the same ; that the plaintiff’s intestate, being invited by one Poster, a foreman of a section in their employ and entrusted by them with the care and control of one of their hand-cars, to ride with him on said hand-car from Waterville to West Waterville, accepted the invitation ; that the…
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