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- Title: Griffin v. Louisville Taxicab & Transfer Co.
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky
- Release Date : January 19, 1945
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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CAMMACK, Justice. The appeal is from a directed verdict in favor of the Louisville Taxicab & Transfer Company at the conclusion of the evidence offered by the appellant, Lawrence William Griffin. Griffin's position is that his case should have been submitted to the jury. The action is based upon the charge that one of the appellee's employees, not the driver of the cab, closed the door of a cab on Griffin's right hand as he was entering it. Griffin, a member of the armed forces, who was receiving treatment to a finger on his left hand in an Army hospital, said that as he was entering the rear seat of a cab in front of the hospital he attempted to shield his left hand, and in so doing placed his right hand on the door facing in order to steady himself, and while in this position a taxi driver, who was assisting passengers enter the cab, slammed the door on his hand. The employee who closed the door said that this was not one of his duties, but that he had been instructed to do so as a matter of courtesy to the passengers.