Nicholls v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; John R. Land, Judge. Suit by Mrs. Martha Lane Nicholls against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
Plaintiff fell while alighting from a train of the defendant company, and was injured, and sues in damages, charging negligence. When the step of a railway coach is too high from the ground for the passengers conveniently to get down, the brakeman puts upon the ground opposite to the step a boxlike footstool, or footstep, for the passenger to use in alighting. What caused the accident in this case was, either that this footstep was not resting evenly, or firmly, upon the ground, and, in consequence, turned over when plaintiff put her foot upon it in alighting, or else that plaintiff placed…
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