Hines v. Meador
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Ilendrichs, Judge; 1. The court should have directed a verdict for defendant. The court’s instructions made the carrier an absolute insurer of passengers against injury by any act of a fellow passenger riding in a coach assigned to another race, if the carrier’s employees knew, or by ordinary care could have known, that such passenger was riding in the wrong coach.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Ilendrichs, Judge; 1. The court should have directed a verdict for defendant. The court’s instructions made the carrier an absolute insurer of passengers against injury by any act of a fellow passenger riding in a coach assigned to another race, if the carrier’s employees knew, or by ordinary care could have known, that such passenger was riding in the wrong coach. The separate coach law was not intended to fix any such absolute liability upon the carrier. It is -a police regulation merely, and there is no provision in it for the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
Appellee sues for damages resulting from personal injuries alleged to have been sustained on account of being assaulted by a fellow passenger while he was riding on a train. The jury awarded damages in the sum of $2,500, and the Director Greneral has appealed.
Appellee’s injuries occurred on November 3, 1918, while he was riding on a passenger train running between Little Rock and Camp Pike. It was a train which left the Union Station at Little Rock early in the morning before daylight, and was operated principally for the convenience of mechanics and other laboring men who were engaged in…
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- Quinn v. Louisville & Nashville R.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1895
- Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Renfro's Admr.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911
- Wood v. L. & N. R. R.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1897
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. AllisonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. PettiesSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1911
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