Southern Railway Co. v. Grady
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bessemer City Court. Heard before Hon. J. C. B. Gwin. Action by Mrs. Lula Grady against the Southern Railway Company for damages for carrying her past the station of her destination. Judgment for plaintiff, and the court having denied defendant’s motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. Transferred from the Court of Appeals, under the act creating said Court.
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, J.
-The plaintiff brought this action to recover for the alleged negligence of the defendant, a common carrier of passengers, in carrying her by the station of Littleton, which was her destination and to *516which as a passenger on a local passenger train her transportation had been paid.(1) The plaintiff was the only witness testifying in her behalf, and her insistence to show the alleged negligence of the defendant seems to be of a twofold character: First, that the agents or employees of the defendant negligently failed to call the station of Little-ton; and, second, that they did not stop at…
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