Louisville Bridge Co. v. Sieber

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson — ■

Reversing.

On Sunday afternoon, July 24, 1910, between four and five o ’clock, Jolin Sieber, then about seventeen years of age, and a companion by the name of Reed Bunch, for the purpose of stealing a ride, got on the front end of a northbound Illinois Central Railroad train at Fourteenth and Kentucky streets in the city of Louisville, just as the train was starting from the station. They went first to the compartment for colored people and took a seat. While sitting there Sieber called the attention of his companion to the fact that they were in…