Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. Huffman
Indiana Supreme Court
Prom Marshall Circuit Court; Barry Bernetha, Judge. Action by Susan Huffman as administratrix of the estate of John Huffman, deceased, against the Lake Erie and Western Eailroad Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals. (Transferred from the Appellate Court under §1405 Burns 1908, Acts 1901 p. 590.)
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
Appellee's decedent, John W. Huffman, was a passenger on one of appellant’s trains returning from Columbus, Ohio, to Peru, Indiana. At Tipton appellant’s two lines of railroad intersect each other, the one on which decedent came from Columbus continuing westward and the other from the south running north through Tipton to Peru. Decedent should have changed ears at Tipton to reach hie *131destination, but did not, for the reason that he was not used to traveling on a railroad, and the conductor of the train from the east told him that he would not have to change, and to stay on that car, which he…
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