Reed v. L. & N. R. R.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Cabe 79 — ACTION FOR INJURY APPEAL FROM CLARK CIRCUIT COURT. It is the duty of a carrier of passengers to protect and care for a passenger who, without fault on the part of the carrier, receives injuries of such a serious nature as to render him unable to protect or care for himself. 2 Am. & Eng.
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Cabe 79 — ACTION FOR INJURY APPEAL FROM CLARK CIRCUIT COURT. It is the duty of a carrier of passengers to protect and care for a passenger who, without fault on the part of the carrier, receives injuries of such a serious nature as to render him unable to protect or care for himself. 2 Am. & Eng. Enc. of Law, 745; Hutchinson on Carriers, 596; Louisville, &c., R. R. Co. v. Sullivan, 81 Ky., 624; Isabel v. N. Y. v. N. H. R.'R. Co., 77 Conn., 393; C., H. & D. R. R. Co. v. Kassen, 49 O. St., 230. 1 Whatever the moral duty may he, a carrier does not owe to a passenger injured without its fault the…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BURNAM
delivered the opinion or the court.
The facts upon which appellant seeks to recover damages from appellee in this action, as stated in his original and amended petitions, are that he was a passenger on one of appellee’s trains from Winchester to Elkin, and that at a point between those places, while the train was moving rapidly and passing over a high trestle, he was *605thrown or pushed from the train, so that he fell a distance of from forty to fifty feet; that he received the fall after dark, and that the defendant, through its employes in ■charge of the train, knew he had received…
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