Jones v. Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Co.

1. A passenger, though a minor of about the age of sixteen years, who voluntarily alighted from a moving train, was not entitled to a recovery from the railroad company for .injuries thus sustained, it not appearing that he was directed so to do by any agent or servant of the company, but that, in consequence of a fear that he would be carried beyond his station, he took upon himself the risk of leaving the train in this man*571ner. This is so even though the train was running at a speed which indicated that it would pass the station in question without stopping. If the train was moving so…