Schilling v. Pullman Co.
Schilling v. Pullman Co.
Opinion of the Court
This causé comes on to be heard upon the demurrer of the defendant to each count in the declaration. The first count charges that, while the plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s car, it did, through one Holmes, its agent, servant, and employee, approach plaintiff and make several insulting, indecent, and libidinous proposals and remarks to her, at the hour of 10:30 p. m. The second count charges in the same manner and at the same time the assault upon her by Holmes. The third count charges in the same manner the use of insulting, indecent, and libidinous language, at the hour of 7:20 a. m. And the fourth count, so far as I read it, -is in the same language as the third count. The defendant demurs to each of these counts.
The declaration seems to be framed on the theory that the defendant is responsible for any act done or wbrd spoken by any of its agents, servants, or employees to a passenger upon one of its cars, whether that agent, servant, and employee had any connection with the duty of transporting said passenger or not. This I do not think good
The demurrer will be sustained.
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- Full Case Name
- SCHILLING v. PULLMAN CO.
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- Published