Conolly v. Crescent City Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Voorhics, J. 1. Common carriers, in the conveyance of passengers, are bound to exercise a very high degree of diligence, care, skill and foresight. Lehman vs. R. R. Co., 37 Ann. 707. 2. Especially where the passenger is known to be in any manner affected with a disability by which the hazards of travel are increased. Wardle vs. C. C. Co., 35 Ann. 204 and authorities there cited; Hickman vs. Mo.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Voorhics, J. 1. Common carriers, in the conveyance of passengers, are bound to exercise a very high degree of diligence, care, skill and foresight. Lehman vs. R. R. Co., 37 Ann. 707. 2. Especially where the passenger is known to be in any manner affected with a disability by which the hazards of travel are increased. Wardle vs. C. C. Co., 35 Ann. 204 and authorities there cited; Hickman vs. Mo. R. R. Co., decided by Supreme Court Missouri, March 21, 3887; East Line R. R. Co. vs. Rushing, S. C. Texas. Dec. 9, 1887, G S. W.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
On a Sixnday in December, at about two o’clock of the afternoon, Patrick Conolly, a sober", respectable citizen, of 55 years, en*60tercel a car of tlie defendant’s street railway, and paid his fare as a passenger. Nothing in tlie evidence indicates that he exhibited any sign of intoxication or was guilty of the slightest impropriety of behavior, on entering the car, or until he had ridden a, considerable number of squares (from Terpsichore to Third street), and the testimony is conclusive that, in point of fact, he was perfectly sober. After…
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- New Orleans, Jackson, & Great Northern Railroad v. StathamMississippi Supreme Court · 1869
- Murphy v. Union Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
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