Dougherty v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Citations

• 86 Ill. 467

Syllabus

<p>Negligence—contributory. If a railway company fails to stop its train at a station where it has contracted to carry and leave a passenger, it furnishes no excuse for the passenger’s conduct in leaping from the train some three miles beyond, while the train is running at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, and if he does so leap from the train, and is injured thereby, he can not recover of the company for such injury. In such case he should remain on the train, and sue for the damages sustained by him in being carried beyond the proper station.</p>