Brown v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.

Citations

• 139 F. 972
• 2 L.R.A.N.S. 105
• 1905 U.S. App. LEXIS 3923

Syllabus

<p>Carriers — Assault on Passengers — Liability.</p> <p>The liability or nonliability of the carrier of passengers for hire for an injury inflicted upon a passenger carried, by reason of a third person making an unprovoked assault upon him, depends upon the presence or absence of evidence showing the employés of the carrier either knew, or by the exercise of due care should have known, from all the attendant facts and circumstances of the particular case, that injury to the passenger carried was threatened or impending, and which injury, by the exercise of that high degree of care which the law requires of a carrier of passengers for their safety and protection, thus being foreseen, might have been guarded against.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — Eor cases in point, see vol. 9, Cent. Dig. Carriers, § 1125.]</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>