Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. King
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error-to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. Only the facts essential to the consideration of the single question upon which a reversal is sought need be stated.
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In Error-to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. Only the facts essential to the consideration of the single question upon which a reversal is sought need be stated. The plaintiff, below, a young woman, sustained very serious injuries by collision with a railroad train while crossing a railway track which intervened between the station of the company at Central City, W. Va., and the nearest public highway or street connecting the village and station. She had taken passage at Ashland, Ky., upon an accommodation train, for Central City, a station east of Ashland.…
1Opinion of the CourtLubton, Circuit Judge
This case must turn here, as it did below, upon the single question as to whether the defendant in error, at the time she was injured, stood in the relation of a passenger to the railroad company. The insistence of counsel for the company is that when Miss King alighted from the train on the cinder path, between her train and the depot platform, she was in a place of safety, and the relation of carrier and passenger at an end. It is true that when upon the cinder path there was no obstacle between her and the depot platform. But can it be said that she was clear of train and tracks when it…
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