Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Simpson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court; Hugh Basham, Judge; statement by the court. Charley Simpson, a boy sixteen years and eleven months of age, was riding on the platform of the back coach of appellant’s passenger train from ITot Springs, Arkansas, to Little Rock. Pie fell from the platform, and was severely injured.
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Appeal from Yell Circuit Court; Hugh Basham, Judge; statement by the court. Charley Simpson, a boy sixteen years and eleven months of age, was riding on the platform of the back coach of appellant’s passenger train from ITot Springs, Arkansas, to Little Rock. Pie fell from the platform, and was severely injured. The coach was provided with a vestible, but the door and vestibule platform or floor, on the side next to the station platform at Plot Springs, were left open, so that passengers might enter. This door and vestibule floor on one side continued open until the accident occurred. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). As is said in Wagoner v. Wabash R. Co., 94 S. W. 293, “the purpose of the vestibuled cars is to add to the comfort, convenience and safety of passengers, more particularly while passing from, one car to another.” While railway companies are not bound to provide vestibuled coaches on their passenger trains, yet, where they have done so, passengers will have the right to assume that they are convenient and safe for the purpose intended, and that they will be prudently managed. Any negligence upon the -part of railway companies in these particulars resulting…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Crandall v. Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Wagoner v. Wabash RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1906
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- St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. DyerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1914
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