Legal Opinion
Jeffersonville Railroad v. Swift
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided May 15, 1866PublishedCited by 15 opinions
APPEAL from the Johnson Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtElliott, J.
This was a suit by John Swift against The Jeffersonville Railroad Company to recover damages for injuries sustained by the former in leaping from the cai’S of the company, on which he was a passenger, while they were in motion.
The complaint contains two paragraphs. The first alleges, in substance, that Swift took passage on the ears of the road at Jeffersonville, on the 7th of February, 1865, for Amity, Johnson county, Indiana, and paid his faro on the contract of the company to carry him safely to, and put him safely off at, Amity, that the company carelessly ran by the station at Amity, and…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Stokes v. SaltonstallSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
- Frink v. PotterIllinois Supreme Court · 1856
- Sanford v. . Eighth Avenue Railroad CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1861
- Swank v. Nichols' AdministratorIndiana Supreme Court · 1865
3Cited by15 opinions
- Anderson v. Hygeia Hotel Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1896
- Woolery v. Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1886
- Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railroad v. CarperIndiana Supreme Court · 1887
- Jewell v. Chicago, St. Paul & Minneapolis Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1882
- Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad v. AthonIndiana Court of Appeals · 1893
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