Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Lackey

Citations

• 78 Ill. 55

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional law—making railroad company liable for no violation of duty. The act of 1855 making railroad companies liable for all expenses of the coroner and his inquest, and the burial of all persons who may die on its cars, or who may be killed by collision, or other accident occurring to such cars, or otherwise, is unconstitutional and void, so far as it attempts to make such companies liable in cases where they have violated no lawr, or have been guilty of no negligence on their part.</p>