Sullivan v. Old Colony Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tori for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on a train of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff was riding in a car of the train as a passenger, having a ticket for a passage from Boston to his home in Randolph.
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Tori for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while a passenger on a train of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The plaintiff was riding in a car of the train as a passenger, having a ticket for a passage from Boston to his home in Randolph. When the train arrived at North Braintree, a regular passenger station of the defendant, the plaintiff was taken hold of by the two conductors in charge of said train, both of whom were duly appointed railroad police officers and were then wearing the badge of…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The plaintiff was a passenger upon the defendant’s railroad, having a ticket which entitled him to be carried *122from Boston to his home in Randolph. It appeared at the trial that he was drunk and disorderly, using indecent language, to the annoyance of the other passengers; that he was requested to be quiet and refused; and thereupon the officers of the defendant, who were also railroad police officers, not intending to arrest him, but to remove him, so as to protect the other passengers from annoyance, removed him from the cars to the platform of the depot at an intermediate station, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Beckwith v. Cheshire RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
3Cited by2 opinions
- Holton v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Cobb v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901