Brown v. Asheville Power & Light Co.

ClaRK,, 0. J.

The plaintiff, an aged lady, on a visit to her daughter in Asheville, went with said daughter and infant grandchild on the defendant’s car to Riverside Park, a place of amusement conducted by the defendant. On the return trip, as they came out from the park to the platform provided for passengers, there was a crowd of people thereon to take the car, and when the car arrived that also was crowded.

The conductor left the car a short distance from the point where passengers were received and discharged, in order to change a switch, while the car went on, without the conductor, to the…