Case Name: Mitten v. Delano et al., Receivers
Court: Appellate Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1917-06-29
Citations: 65 Ind. App. 701
Docket Number: No. 9,265
Parties: Mitten v. Delano et al., Receivers.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 701–702

Head Matter:
Mitten v. Delano et al., Receivers.
[No. 9,265.
Filed June 29, 1917.]
From Marion Superior Court (92,817); V. G. Clifford, Judge.
Action by Edward LeRoy Mitten against Frederic A. Delano and others, receivers. From a judgment for defendants, the plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
J. Fred Masters, A. D. Babcock, James E. Babcock and William H. Parkinson, for appellant.
Edwin P. Hammond, William V. Stuart, Charles H. Stuart and Allison E. Stuart, for appellees.

Opinion:
Hottel, C. J.
This is an appeal from a judgment in appellees' favor in an action brought by appellant to recover for personal injuries, received by him while being carried on one of appel lees' trains, it being alleged that such injuries were caused byappellees' negligence.
Appellant when injured was riding on a pass which contained a release from a liability for injuries substantially the same as the release in the pass involved in the case of Ft. Wayne, etc., Traction Co. v. Justus (1917), 186 Ind. 464, 115 N. E. 585.
In that case the Supreme Court held that the pass there involved was "free," and that the stipulation by which the decedent assumed the risk of damages for injury to himself and property was binding, and that "no recovery could be had for causing his death unless done wilfully." The facts and circumstances connected with the issuing of the passes in the two cases are not materially different, nor are there any other facts in the instant case upon which it could be distinguished from the case cited.
Upon the authority of that case, the judgment below must be, and is, affirmed^