{ "id": 5779603, "name": "The Hannibal and St. Jo Railroad Company v. Elizabeth Martin", "name_abbreviation": "Hannibal & St. Jo Railroad v. Martin", "decision_date": "1882-09-26", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "386", "last_page": "392", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "11 Ill. App. 386" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. 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Y. 544", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "N.Y.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "57 Ill. 266", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "9 Gray, 247", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Gray", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "55 Ill. 506", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "opinion_index": -1 }, { "cite": "47 Iowa, 549", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Iowa", "case_ids": [ 2331794 ], "opinion_index": -1, "case_paths": [ "/iowa/47/0549-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 703, "char_count": 13625, "ocr_confidence": 0.554, "pagerank": { "raw": 1.3373193650272197e-07, "percentile": 0.6303790298198853 }, "sha256": "c440a67eb49e50f15b27140713ea405d649e743b16b8673fb375bae57191ddfc", "simhash": "1:b86cdf875618059c", "word_count": 2445 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:01:48.859971+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "The Hannibal and St. Jo Railroad Company v. Elizabeth Martin." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Higbee, J.\nThis suit was brought by appellee to recover for a personal injury received by her while a passenger on appellant\u2019s cars.\nOn the 16tli day of February, 1880, appellee and her husband bought coupon tickets entitling them to a passage by rail from Canton, Illinois, to \u00a1Nickerson, Kansas. One coupon of the tickets was from Quincy to Kansas City, over appellant\u2019s road.\nOn the evening of the same day appellee and her husband arrived at Quincy, and were there detained until ten o\u2019clock of the same night, when they left on appellant\u2019s road for Kansas City.\nAppellant has no track- or depot on the east side of the Mississippi river, but after crossing the bridge, its passenger trains run into the depot of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Eailroad Company, over its track. By agreement of parties, all switching in the' yard and making up trains is done by the employes of the latter company, and when the trains are made up and ready to leave, appellant\u2019s employes then take charge of them.\nWhen the train was being made up, some .one, whom appellee thinks she afterward saw on the train as conductor, announced that the train was ready, whereupon appellee and her husband followed seyeral others to the south end of the platform and entered the rear car. Finding the same full of passengers, they passed on to the next car in front, and not finding any vacant seats, went on to the north end of the third car where appellee found a seat, but her husband and ten or fifteen other passengers could get no seats and had to stand up. A brakeman told the passengers to be patient a moment and they would put on another car. Just then a car was backed down against the one appellee was on, and the brakeman announced that the car was ready, when appellee attempted to enter the same and fell between the cars and was severely injured.\nAt the time of the accident the front cars were attached to the switch engine, and an effort being made to couple the cars, which was then unsuccessful, but soon after accomplished.\nThe first assignment of error, we will notice, questions the action of the court, in modifying appellant\u2019s fifteenth instruction before giving the same to the jury. The substance of that instruction was, that if the jury believed from the evidence that appellant had, on the night appellee was injured, a platform in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy depot at Quincy, designated by it for the reception of passengers, and that appellee was injured while said train was being made up and before it had been put in position to receive passengers, then that the relation of passenger and carrier did not at the time of the injury subsist between appellant and appellee, and the jury should find for the defendant.\nThe court refused to give this instruction as asked, but gave it as modified by adding the following words: \u201cUnless the jury further believe from the evidence that the agent or servant of the defendant had notified plaintiff that said train ' was ready for the reception of passengers, and that in pnr- \u2018 suance of such notice, said plaintiff had got on said train of cars before she received the alleged injury, if the jury believe from the evidence she received any injury.\u201d\nThe three rear cars stood on the track by the side of the platform used by the Hannibal & St. Jo. Railroad, and the evidence tends strongly to show that at or about the usual time of the departure of the train, it was announced by one of the employes of appellant, most probably, from the evidence, the conductor, that the train was ready; when appellee and her husband followed several others aboard of the ears and found all three of them filled with passengers.\nIf a person, holding a ticket entitling him to a passage on the train, may not enter the cars and become the passenger of the common carrier under such circumstances, it is difficult to see just when and how the relation of passenger and carrier could be created.\nWe see no error in the modification of this instruction.\nAppellant also assigns for error, the giving appellee\u2019s third instruction, as follows: \u201c Although the jury may believe from the evidence that the defendant\u2019s train of cars, testified about by the witnesses in this case, was made up by the servants and employes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Bail-road Company, and that such servants and employes had the control and management of said cars until said train was made up and ready to start on its run over the defendant\u2019s road, still, if the jury further believe from the evidence that said servants and employes of, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Bailroad Company so made up and had control of said train and ears with the consent of the defendant, and under an agreement between the defendant and said Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Bailroad Company, then the court instructs the jury that, for the said purpose of making up and managing said train and cars until said train was ready to start on its regular run, the said servants and employes of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Bailroad Company, so engaged, were the servants and employes of the defendant.\u201d\nAppellant was a common carrier of passengers and property between Quincy and Kansas City for hire, and as such it was its duty to manage its trains by careful, sober and skillful servants. It alone had the power to employ and remove the servants by whom its trains were managed, and it must be held responsible for their conduct.\nIt matters not whether these servants in the management \u2022 of its trains, on the road upon which they ran and over which appellee\u2019s ticket entitled her to pass, were employed and paid personally by the officers of appellant road, or by some other person or corporation employed by appellant to have the service pei'formed for it.\nAppellant operated its road in its own name and for its own gain, and the fact that it contracted with the O. B. & Q. to do its switching or even operate its trains, can not relieve it from its responsibility to the public as a common carrier.\n[t contracted with appellee to safely carry her from Quincy to Kansas City, and when she entered the car and became a passenger upon appellant\u2019s road, it became liable for her safe transportation, and for all negligence of those whom it had authorized to manage its trains for it.\nIt is also contended by appellant that the trial court erred in permitting appellee and her husband to testify to the declarations of Griswold, the conductor of appellant\u2019s train, made after the accident had occurred. Hugh Martin, the husband of appellee, testified that his wife was unconscious for about one hour after the accident; that after she returned to consciousness they had a conversation with Griswold, the conductor on the train, in reference to the accident. Said witness was permitted to testify, against the objections of appellant, as follows: \u201c The conductor inquired in regard to how the matter occurred; it seemed he did not know anything about it. I told him how it occurred; said he, it is carelessness. He said there had been a great deal of carelessness or reckles-mess, something of that kind, on the part of the attaches of the road. If you want me to tell all of it, he said really he felt afraid himself, and he wanted to get our names to report to headquarters.\u201d\nAppellee also testified, against a like objection, that in the conversation referred to by her husband the conductor said that \u201c the men or the hands on the road had become so reckless that they ought to be reported, and he would report them. He said we ought to prosecute them because they had become so reckless.\u201d\nIt is a sufficient reason why this evidence should not have ' been admitted, that the conductor was talking about a matter he knew nothing, personally, about, so far as he referred to the accident by which appellee was injured.\nIt is insisted by appellee\u2019s attorney, that this evidence was admissible as a part of the res gestee of the accident by which she was injured. To he receivable upon this ground, the declarations must have been made at the time the accident occurred, and have reference to that transaction. Most of 'the statements refer to other transactions, and have no reference to the accident by which appellant was injured.\nThese declarations were by appellant\u2019s servant, not in the course of his duty, made \u2014 not under oath \u2014 about a matter in reference to which he was competent to testify as a witness.\nThey did not accompany the principal act, or tend in any way to elucidate it, nor were they a part \u00f3f the res gestee. They are no more competent because made only a short time after the accident had occurred, than if made a year after.\nWhen the principal transaction was ended, from that moment the servant had no.anthority to bind his principal by anything he might see proper to say about it. His evidence was the merest hearsay, and should not have been admitted.\nThese declarations were of a character most damaging to appellant, and the court having admitted them ast competent proof, the jury, in the sharp conflict in the evidence as to the manner in which the accident occurred, would be likely to regard them as the admissions of appellant, made by its authorized servant or agent, and therefore binding upon it.\nThat the declarations of the conductor, that the road was so carelessly or recklessly managed that he was afraid of it himself, had a damaging effect upon the rights of appellant, is demonstrated in a verdict for damages which we regard as large for the injury received by appellee.\nJudgment reversed, and cause remanded. \"\nReversed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Higbee, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Messrs. Marsh & McFadon, for appellant;", "Messrs. Ewmo & Hamilton, for appellee;" ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "The Hannibal and St. Jo Railroad Company v. Elizabeth Martin.\n1. Carriers op Passengers \u2014 Agts op servants. \u2014 When a passenger enters a car by the invitation of an employe of the railroad company, or in obedience to an announcement that the cars are ready to receive passengers, the relation of passenger and carrier is created.\n2. Liability op one road por acts op servants of another.\u2014 Where a railroad company operating its road in its own name contracts with another company to make up its train in the depot of the latter, the former company is liable for an injury to a passenger occurring on its train while being made up by the servants of the latter, and it makes no difference that the servants were employed and paid by the latter road.\n3. Admissions op conductor. \u2014 An admission or statement by the conductor of the train, made after the accident, occurred, in reference to the cause of the accident, is not admissible in evidence against the defendant company.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Adams county; the Hon. J. II. Williams, Judge, presiding.\nOpinion filed September 26, 1882.\nMessrs. Marsh & McFadon, for appellant;\nthat it was error to admit in evidence the statements of the conductor, made after the accident happened, cited 1 Greenl\u2019f\u2019s Ev. \u00a7 113; Story on Agency, \u00a7 134; Angell & Ames on Corporations, \u00a7 309; Verry v. B. C. R. & M. A. Co. 47 Iowa, 549; M. C. R. R. Co. v. Gougar, 55 Ill. 506; Lane v. Bryant, 9 Gray, 247; C. & N. W. R. R. Co. v. Fillmore, 57 Ill. 266; Furst v. Second Ave. R. R. Co. 72 N. Y. 544; C. B. & Q. R. R. Co. v. Riddle, 60 Ill. 534; C. B. & Q. R. R. Co. v. Lee, 60 Ill. 503; Luby v. H. R. R. R. Co. 17 N. Y. 131; Pittsburg R. R. Co. v. Theobald, 51 Ind. 246; Rogers v. McCune, 19 Mo. 562; Whitaker v. Eighth Ave. R. R. Co. 51 N. Y. 299; Robinson v. R. R. Co. 7 Gray, 97.\nOpinions of experts as to the probable results of plaintiff\u2019s injuries are not admissible: Hutchinson on Carriers, \u00a7 805; Shearman & Redfield on Negligence, \u00a7 597.\nDamages for mental suffering can not be allowed: 2 Greenl\u2019f's Ev. \u00a7 267; Ill. Cent. R. R. Co. v. Sutton, 53 Ill. 399.\nIt was error to instruct the jury that they might find as plaintiff\u2019s damages the expense of being cured, there being no evidence as to such expenses: Ill. Cent. R. R. Co. v. Frelka, 9 Bradwell, 605; Ill. Cent. R. R. Co. v. Benton, 69 Ill. 175; Nichols v. Bradsby, 78 Ill. 44.\nThe fact that plaintiff may have heard one of appellant\u2019s servants announce that the train was ready did not justify her in going upon the train: C. B. & Q. R. R. Co. v. Sykes, 96 Ill. 172; C. & A. R. R. Co. v. Randolph, 53 Ill. 514.\nThe damages are excessive: C. R. I. P. R. R. Co. v. Payzant, 87 Ill. 130; Kepperley v. Ramsden, 83 Ill. 356.\nMessrs. Ewmo & Hamilton, for appellee;\nthat the statements of the conductor were admissible as part of the res gestee, cited Abbott\u2019s Trial Evidence, 44; 1 Greenl\u2019f\u2019s Ev. \u00a7 113; Bank of Monroe v. Field, 2 Hill, 445; Bass v. C. & N. W. R. R. Co. 42 Wis. 654; H. & B. M. R. R. Co. v. Decker, 82 Penn. 119.\nThese statements were not material and did not \"produce the verdict, and therefore were not error: Deniston v. Hoagland, 67 Ill. 265; Thompson v. McLaughlin, 66 Ill. 407; Creote v. Wiley, 83 Ill. 444; Carpenter v. Davis, 71 Ill. 396.\nThe experts had a right to give their opinions as to the probability of a recovery: Abbott\u2019s Trial Ev. 600; E. N. N. R. R. Co. v. Henderson, 51 Penn. 320; Bryant v. Trimmer, 47 N. Y. 96; Creote v. Wiley, 83 Ill. 444.\nThe jury may consider plaintiff\u2019s suffering of body and mind in estimating damages: I. & St. L. R. R. Co. v. Stables, 62 Ill. 320.\nA passenger has a right to rely upon the reasonable directions of the conductor: C. B. & Q. R. R. Co. v. Sykes, 96 Ill. 172.\nThe damages are not excessive: Ill. Cent. R. R. Co. v. Parks, 88 Ill. 373; Ill. Cent. R. R. Co. v. Cunningham, 67 Ill. 316; C. W. Div. Ry. Co. v. Hughes, 69 Ill. 170; C. & A. R. R. Co. v. Wilson, 63 Ill. 167; C. & A. R. R. Co. v. Murray, 71 Ill. 601; P. C. & St. L. R. R. Co. v. Thompson, 56 Ill. 138." }, "file_name": "0386-01", "first_page_order": 382, "last_page_order": 388 }