Louisville & N. R. R. v. Jordan
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 50 — Action to Recover Damages fob being Ejected from Defendant’s Train — ARREAD FROM HOPKINS CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. SYNOPSIS. 1. The Hopkins circuit court had no jurisdiction to try this case, because .plaintiff was a non-resident of the county, and her alleged injury occurred in Christian county, .and the “residence of the carrier” is in Jefferson county.
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Case 50 — Action to Recover Damages fob being Ejected from Defendant’s Train — ARREAD FROM HOPKINS CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. SYNOPSIS. 1. The Hopkins circuit court had no jurisdiction to try this case, because .plaintiff was a non-resident of the county, and her alleged injury occurred in Christian county, .and the “residence of the carrier” is in Jefferson county. The objection to the jurisdiction should have been passed upon by the lower court, as it w.as' properly raised for his consideration by a plea to the jurisdiction; the lower court refused to pass…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE BURN AM —
Reversing.
This action was brought in the Hopkins circuit court by Mattie Jordan, an infant eight years of age, by next, friend, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. She alleged that she took passage on one of the defendant’s trains at Mortons Gap, a station in Hopkins county, for Nashville, Tenn., placing herself under the special care of the conductor, and that when the train arrived in Hopkinsville, Ky., the defendant, through the gross negligence of its servants in charge of the train, “wrongfully, forcibly, ■ and in violation of her…
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