Sleeping-Car
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The servants and employes in charge of sleeping or drawing-room cars are considered in the same light as if they were employed by the railroad company, notwithstanding the existence of a separate agreement between the railroad and the sleeping-car company, whereby the latter furnishes its own servants and conductors, and has exclusive control of the cars used on the former company's road; Kinsley v. R. Co., 125 Mass. 54, 28 Am. Rep. 200. Sleeping car companies are not liable as inn-keepers; Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Smith, 73 Ill. 360, 24 Am. Rep. 258; Welch v. Pullman Palace Car Co., 16 Abb. Pr. (N. S.) 352.