Lindsey v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Appanoose Gvreuit Court. The plaintiff was a passenger on a freight train operated by the defendant, and claims to have been injured because of the negligence of the employes of defendant in the operation of the train. Trial by jury, judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
The plaintiff entered the train at Princeton, and his destination was Lineville. The train reached the last named place about midnight of a dark night, and the caboose in which the plaintiff was seated was stopped seventy-five or one-liundred yards from the depot. Several other passengers got off the train, but the plaintiff failed to do so, because he was sleeping, and did not know when the train stopped. After the train had started to leave Lineville, as the plaintiff testified, a brakeman “spoke to me and inquired if I didn’t want to get off at Lineville. I said I did. The answer was:…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bon v. Railway Passenger Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1881
3Cited by4 opinions
- Galloway v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1893
- Raben v. Central Iowa Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1887
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. GrayIndiana Court of Appeals · 1902
- Bersie v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1926