Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. Best

At about eight o’clock on the morning of March 9,1892, appellee arrived at the union depot in Cincinnati on a passenger train over the Queen and Crescent railroad from Jacksonville, Florida, on his way to Indianapolis. The passenger trains of appellant start from that depot, and there were four such regular trains to leave that day for Indianapolis, one of which left at 8:30 in the morning and another at 1:10 in the afternoon. Appellee was about twenty-one years old. The previous summer he had followed the races in several States as a score-card boy, and about January 1, 1892, he had gone to…