Court Opinion

ID: 8749734
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 11:21:37.594033+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:00:53.062330
License: Public Domain

PARDEE, Circuit Judge
(dissenting). I think the court erred in taking away from the jury the question of contributory negligence. Contrary to the rules of the company, and in violation of the directions and orders of the company’s agents, the deceased, Sullivan, a white person, persisted in remaining in the car set apart for colored people, which, from its location in the train and in the nature of things, and as the result showed, was a place of greater danger than the place set apart by the rules of the company for Sullivan to occupy.
Conceding it was the duty of the company to provide a place in the train for colored people, of equal accommodations and equal safety with that provided for white persons, yet this was not a duty that the company owed to Sullivan. I do not care to elaborate.
The question should have been submitted to the jury under all the evidence adduced in the case, .with proper instructions as to the rules of law concerning contributory negligence in personal injury cases.