The Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company v. Hecht
Decision Date | 16 June 1888 |
Docket Number | 13,854 |
Citation | 17 N.E. 297,115 Ind. 443 |
Parties | The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company v. Hecht |
Court | Indiana Supreme Court |
Petition for a Rehearing Overruled Sept. 20, 1888.
From the Jefferson Circuit Court.
Judgment affirmed.
H. D McMullen and J. McGregor, for appellant.
C. A Korbly and W. O. Ford, for appellee.
The appellee bought a ticket entitling him to passage on the trains of the appellant, and, while at the appellant's station at North Vernon, for the purpose of entering one of its trains, as he was entitled to do under the ticket he had purchased, he was injured, without any fault on his part, by stepping into a hole in the platform, which the appellant, in disregard of its duty, had negligently permitted to remain unprotected. The complaint thus describes the injury sustained by the appellee, and states the damages occasioned by the wrong of the carrier: "The plaintiff was violently thrown down and upon his valise, which he was carrying in his hand, and his foot and ankle were sprained, strained, and otherwise greatly injured and bruised, and the ligaments and tendons of plaintiff's foot were strained and drawn and permanently injured, so that the plaintiff suffered great pain and anguish and became sick, sore and lame, and was confined to his bed and room from thence hitherto, and was wholly incapacitated from attending to his usual vocation, and he laid out and expended a large sum of money, to wit, $ ----- for doctor's fees and medicines and nursing, in attempting to be cured of said hurt, and received a permanent injury which will lame him for life and always impede his successful prosecution of his business, whereby he has sustained damages in the sum of five thousand dollars."
The complaint makes a case entitling the appellee to full compensation for the injury which proximately resulted from the appellant's wrong. Where a disease caused by the injury supervenes, as well as where the disease exists at the time of the injury, and is aggravated by it, the plaintiff is entitled to full compensatory damages. The decisions upon this point are numerous and harmonious. Louisville, etc., R. W. Co. v. Wood, 113 Ind. 544, 14 N.E. 572, and cases cited p. 567; Louisville, etc., R. W. Co. v. Jones, 108 Ind. 551, 9 N.E. 476; Indianapolis, etc., R. W. Co. v. Pitzer, 109 Ind. 179, 6 N.E. 310, and cases cited p. 188; Louisville, etc., R. W. Co. v. Falvey, 104 Ind. 409, 3 N.E. 389; Terre Haute, etc., R. R. Co. v. Buck, 96 Ind. 346; Jeffersonville, etc., R. R. Co. v. Riley, 39 Ind. 568; Keyser v. Chicago, etc., R. W. Co., 66 Mich. 390, 33 N.W. 867; Quackenbush v. Chicago, etc., R. W. Co., 73 Iowa 458, 35 N.W. 523.
The complaint is sufficiently comprehensive to entitle the plaintiff to give evidence of the nature and consequences of his injury.
In Ehrgott v. Mayor, 96 N.Y. 264, it was said by the court:
Chief Justice Campbell said, in Johnson v. McKee, 27 Mich. 471: "When the defendant was informed that damages were sought for sickness and disorder, and their attendant expenses, as well as for wounds and bruises, he was bound to expect evidence of any sickness the origin or aggravation of which could be traced to the act complained of."
In the case of Delie v. Chicago, etc., R. W. Co., 51 Wis. 400, 8 N.W. 265, the question before us was carefully examined and well discussed, the court saying, among other things, that
At another place it was said: ...
To continue reading
Request your trial-
Ohio & M. Ry. Co. v. Hecht
......T. Friedley, Judge. Action by Abraham Hecht against the Ohio & Mississippi Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries. Judgment was entered for plaintiff, ...The decisions upon this point are numerous and harmonious. Railroad Co. v. Wood, 113 Ind. 542, and cases cited, 567, 14 N. E. Rep. 572; Railroad Co. v. Jones, 108 Ind. ......