Meier v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of July Term 1869, No. 111. This was an action on the case for negligence, brought February 6th 1868, by Theodore Gr. Meier against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The plaintiff’s case was the following : — ■ On the evening of February 7th 1867 Theodore Gr. Meier, the plaintiff in error, took passage on the train of defendants’ cars at Jersey City, bound for St. Louis.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: Of July Term 1869, No. 111. This was an action on the case for negligence, brought February 6th 1868, by Theodore Gr. Meier against The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The plaintiff’s case was the following : — ■ On the evening of February 7th 1867 Theodore Gr. Meier, the plaintiff in error, took passage on the train of defendants’ cars at Jersey City, bound for St. Louis. He occupied the sleeping car, which was the rear car of the train. On the following morning, about eight o’clock, at a point on defendants’ road between Tyrone and Altoona — the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was
by Agnew, J.
— It is agreed on all hands, says Judge Redfield, in his work on Railways, ed. 1867, p. 174, that carriers of passengers are liable only for negligence either proximate or remote, and *229that they are- not insurers of the safety of their passengers, as they are as carriers of goods and baggage of passengers. The numerous cases cited from which this result is drawn, justify this statement: Alden v. N. Y. Central Railroad Co., 26 N. Y. 102, holding that a carrier is bound absolutely to provide a safe vehicle, irrespective of any question of negligence, is…
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