Steptoe v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from White 'Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. It was error to refuse the modifications to the instructions requested by defendant, as asked by the plaintiff. The .modifications asked merely embodied the rule that carriers must be careful not to invite or to- mislead passengers into alighting at an improper or dangerous place.
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Appeal from White 'Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. It was error to refuse the modifications to the instructions requested by defendant, as asked by the plaintiff. The .modifications asked merely embodied the rule that carriers must be careful not to invite or to- mislead passengers into alighting at an improper or dangerous place. If a carrier, or its servants, induce passengers to believe the train has stopped, iand they are .invited to .alight, and the passenger is thereby injured the carrier is liable. 99 Ark. 248. It is error to give instructions about which there is no issue. 69…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
This is an action instituted by the plaintiff, C. H. Steptoe, against the defendant railway company to recover for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff while alighting from the caboose of a. freight train on which he was a passenger. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant and the plaintiff has appealed.
Plaintiff was a traveling salesman, and took passage on defendant’s local freight train at Calico Rock, a station on the White River branch, and paid' his fare to Guión, another station twenty or thirty miles distant. The train 'contained twenty-one cars…
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- Hogue v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. LandersSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1900
- Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. DavisSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1907
- Memphis & Little Rock Railway Co. v. StringfellowSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1884
- Railway Co. v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1894
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