St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. Holwerk

The appellee, Leah Holwerk, brought suit in the Phillips county circuit court against the appellant, Berryman Henwood, trustee for St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, alleging that on July 31,1941, she had purchased a ticket from the said railway company from Forrest City, Arkansas, to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, having paid the passenger fare required by the company. She became a passenger at that time, and while undertaking to board the train she was, through the carelessness and negligence of the servants, agents and employees of the said company, injured in the manner set out in her…