Anderson v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a motion for new trial. The reason why a new trial was granted is not stated in the order. The action is one to recover damages for an injury suffered by plaintiff while getting off one of defendant’s trains at Vandalia, Missouri. She had taken passage at Mexico, Missouri, for Vandalia, where the train arrived an hour or so before midnight. According to her testimony when the train stopped at the Vandalia station, she arose from her seat, walked some twelve or eighteen feet to the door of the coach in which she had been sitting, went on the platform…