New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad v. Jopes

Citations

• 142 U.S. 18
• 12 S. Ct. 109
• 35 L. Ed. 919
• 1891 U.S. LEXIS 2565

Syllabus

<p>When a bill of exceptions is signed during the term, and purports to contain a recital of what transpired during the trial, it will be presumed that all things therein stated took place at the trial, unless from its language the contrary is disclosed.</p> <p>The law of self-defence justifies an act done in honest and-reasonable belief of immediate danger; and, if an injury be thereby inflicted upon the person from whom the danger was apprehended, no liability, civil or criminal, follows.</p> <p>If an act of an employé be lawful and one which he js justified in doing, and which casts no personal responsibility upon him, no responsibility attaches to the employer therefor.</p> <p>A railroad, company is not responsible for an injury done to a passenger in one of its trains by the conductor of the train, if the act is done in self-defence against the passenger and under a reasonable belief of immediate danger.</p> <p>New Jersey Steamboat Oo. v. Brockett, 121 U. S. 637, distinguished.</p>