Illinois Cent. R. v. Griffin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. The recovery in this case was for personal injury to the defendant in error, attributed to the negligent omission of the plaintiff in error to keep in safe condition a door to its baggage room at Madison, Wisconsin.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Wisconsin. The recovery in this case was for personal injury to the defendant in error, attributed to the negligent omission of the plaintiff in error to keep in safe condition a door to its baggage room at Madison, Wisconsin. There is little dispute about essential facts and circumstances, and, while the assignment of errors contains a large number of specifications, the question of chief importance is whether the court ought to have directed a verdict for the defendant. The passenger station of this company at…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
The primary question, upon which all other questions of importance in this case turn, is whether the railroad company was under any duty to the defendant in error to make the baggage room a safe place. The contention of the plaintiff in error is that while railway waiting rooms, platforms, and the approaches thereto, are places to which the public having business with the railway company are invited, a baggage room is necessarily a private place, where the one who goes without invitation, express or implied, is a trespasser, or at best a mere licensee, to whom no duty is owing, and that in…
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