Tucker v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.

This was an action for damages, brought by Mrs. Erancis Tucker against the Central of Georgia Railway Company, she alleging she had received personal injuries while attempting to alight from a train at one of the company’s stations. The acts of negligence with which she charged the company were, (1) that the conductor, befoi’e giving her a reasonable opportunity to alight, gave a signal for the train to go ahead, and it was moving at the time she attempted to get off; (2) that in placing a stool on the ground for the purpose of enabling passengers to disembark, as it was the duty of the…