St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Green
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clark Circuit Court ¡Jacob M. Carter, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The plaintiff, Mattie E. Green, filed her complaint - in the Clark Circuit Court, alleging: That the defendant, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, is a railroad corporation, operating a railroad, which passes through Witherspoon, in Hot Spring County, Arkansas; that plaintiff on the nth day of August, Í906, undertook to board its south-bound passenger train for Arkadelphia,…
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Appeal from Clark Circuit Court ¡Jacob M. Carter, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The plaintiff, Mattie E. Green, filed her complaint - in the Clark Circuit Court, alleging: That the defendant, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company, is a railroad corporation, operating a railroad, which passes through Witherspoon, in Hot Spring County, Arkansas; that plaintiff on the nth day of August, Í906, undertook to board its south-bound passenger train for Arkadelphia, before it had pulled up to the station, by direction of an employee of the defendant, and that said employee was careless…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after; stating the facts.) .Appellant claims that the first instruction given by the court was erroneous. The instructions are as follows:
“You are instructed that the defendant railway company, if it undertook to render plaintiff assistance, was bound to the highest degree of care in securing the safety of the plaintiff in boarding its train, which is that degree of care which a very prudent person would have exercised under the circumstances; and if you find from the evidence that the defendant railway company, through its servants or employees, did undertake to assist plaintiff to…
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