Gage v. Illinois Central Railroad

Citations

• 75 Miss. 17

Syllabus

<p>1. Raii/roads. Infant passenger. Conductor's promise.</p> <p>A railroad, conductor’s promise to look after a seven-year-old Boy, and to request the succeeding conductor to do so, does not bind the company.</p> <p>2. Same. Inquiry for inf ant. Answer of eonductw.</p> <p>A negative answer by a railroad conductor, when asked by one interested, at a station where the train had stopped, if he had a seven-year-old boy on the train, does not render the company liable for damages, although, the boy be on the train and be carried beyond such station, which was his destination.</p>