Pride v. Piedmont & Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Long, J., at tbe Second April Term, 1918, of MECKLENBURG. This is. an action to recover damages for personal injury caused, as is alleged, by tbe negligence of tbe defendant. Defendant owns and operates a line of interurban electric railway between Charlotte and Gastonia, via Ehynes Station, a regular stop.
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Appeal by defendant from Long, J., at tbe Second April Term, 1918, of MECKLENBURG. This is. an action to recover damages for personal injury caused, as is alleged, by tbe negligence of tbe defendant. Defendant owns and operates a line of interurban electric railway between Charlotte and Gastonia, via Ehynes Station, a regular stop. Plaintiff, Cora Pride, purchased a ticket from Charlotte to Ehynes Station and became a passenger upon defendant’s train of two cars for that point, leaving Charlotte about 10:30 p. m., 23 December, 1916, and duly notified the conductor that she desired to alight…
1Opinion of the CourtAlleN, J.
Common carriers are held to the highest degree of care for the protection of passengers, and are liable in damages not only for the wrongful acts of their own agents, but for those of strangers if they could be reasonably anticipated. The principle is fully recognized in this State in Perry v. R. R., 153 N. C., 296; Stanley v. R. R., 160 N. C., 323; Mills v. R. R., 172 N. C., 266, and is correctly stated in brief of counsel for the plaintiff with citation of authority.
“While a common carrier is not an insurer of its passenger’s’ safety, and is perhaps hot bound to protect its passengers from…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Cary v. Los Angeles Ry. Co.California Supreme Court · 1910
- Cohen v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
- Gordon v. EansSupreme Court of Missouri · 1888
- Anderson v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1915
- McDonough v. Third Avenue RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1904
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