Railway Accident Law; The Liability of Railways for Injuries to the Person (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. THE LIABILITY OP THE RAILWAY TO THE PERSONS INCLUDED IN THE FOURTH CATEGORY, --PASSENGERS, ETC. I. The general principle determining the liability. II. Passengers. III. Persons to whom the railway owes the same measure of duty that it owes to its passengers. IV. The Pennsylvania Act of 4 April, 1868. V. The general duty of the railway to its passengers and to those to whom it owes a like duty. VI. The duty as to the adoption of improved appliances and methods of operation. VII. Railway regulations as affecting passengers. VIII. Station approaches, platforms, and buildings. IX. Boarding and descending from cars. X. The duty of the railway in the operation of its line. XI. Contributory negligence of passengers. L THE GENERAL PRINCIPLE DETERMINING THE LIA-BILITY OF THE RAILWAY. 207. The fourth category includes persons who, in the course of the performance of a contract based upon a valuable consideration, come upon the line, premises, or cars of the railway, including herein passengers of the railway; attendants of passengers; passengers of another railway received for transportation in the railway's cars; passengers of another railway whose cars are run over the line of the railway; passengers of another railway with whom a station is jointly occupied; servants of another railway while upon the line or premises of the railway in the performance of their duty to that other railway; consignors, consignees, and their agents, personally assisting in the reception, carriage, or delivery of their freight; persons entering under special contract upon the railway's line or premises; Post Office employes carried under a contract between the railway and the Post Office Depart; nient, or under a statutory duty imposed upon the railway; persons carried unde...