TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. REEDER

No. 208.

170 U.S. 530 (1898)

TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. REEDER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 9, 1898.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John F. Dillon, Mr. Winslow S. Pierce and Mr. David D. Duncan for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Presley K. Ewing, Mr. Henry F. Ring and Mr. L.S. Schluter for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The several assignments of error in this case all resolve themselves into the two questions whether the defendant railway company was entitled to a peremptory instruction in its favor, or, in case of a refusal of such instruction, whether it was entitled to submit to the jury the question of the contributory negligence of the plaintiff in the mere fact of riding in the stock car.

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