Nick v. Pontchartrain Railroad

Citations

• 12 Teiss. 373
• 1915 La. App. LEXIS 75

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>A carrier of passengers is held to the highest degree of care with respect to the facilities for entering and leaving cars.</p> <p>Where the employees of a railroad leave a stepping box upon the platform of a ear upon which a passenger, entering the ear hurriedly, stumbles and is hurt, it is negligence on the part of the railroad for which it is liable.</p> <p>It is not contributory negligence of a passenger not to have seen this box at a time when his mind was engrossed in securing a1 seat in the rush and crush of an excursion train.</p>