Reagan v. St. Louis Transit Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Selden P. Spencer, Judge. (1) The instruction given by the court is not the law as applicable to carriers of passengers.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Selden P. Spencer, Judge. (1) The instruction given by the court is not the law as applicable to carriers of passengers. It is the law of the relation between carrier and passenger that it is the duty of the carrier to safely carry the passenger to her point of destination on the carrier’s line, and there to stop the car and keep it stopped a reasonable time, to enable the passenger to alight in safety from the car whilst so stopped — if the carrier can do so by the highest practical care of a very prudent and skillful carrier of passengers.…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
This is an action for damages for personal injuries.
The case is as simple a one of its kind as may be imagined. The plaintiff charges that she was a passenger on one of the defendant’s cars, and desired to get off of the car at the corner of Easton and Grand avenues; that when the car reached said place and whilst it “was slowed up so as to be moving imperceptibly, or stopped for the purpose of allowing the plaintiff to alight therefrom at her said point of destination, and, whilst the plaintiff was in the act of stepping off said ear, whilst so slowed up or stopped, and plaintiff is unable…
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- Williams v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1878
- State v. PageSupreme Court of Missouri · 1855
- Hunt v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1872
- White v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1878
3Cited by4 opinions
- Friedman v. United Railways Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1922
- Sharp v. City of CarthageSupreme Court of Missouri · 1928
- Henderson ex rel. Henderson v. JacksonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
- Neumann v. St. Louis Transit Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1904