Cullen v. Baltimore & Potomac Railroad

Citations

• 8 App. D.C. 69
• 1896 U.S. App. LEXIS 3149

Syllabus

<p>Contributory Negligence; Reckless Injury.</p> <p>i. Where one person has knowledge, or from the circumstances must be supposed to have had knowledge, of the exposed condition ■ or peril of another person, and then recklessly inflicts injury upon such other person, he will not be relieved of legal responsibility by the fact that the person injured negligently placed himself in peril.</p> <p>-2. But in such á case, in order to hold the person inflicting the injury liable, it will not be sufficient to show that'with reasonable diligence on his part he could have had knowledge of the other person’s exposed condition or peril, and thereafter acted without reasonable care; following Didzoneit v. Railroad Co., x App. D. C. 482.</p>