Huff v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The District Court entered summary judgment for the defendants. The deposition of the plaintiff had been taken and the court was of the opinion that under the plaintiff’s own version of the accident there was no liability on the part of the defendants.

The plaintiff, a passenger of the defendant railroad company, traveling in a Pullman car, departed Washington, D. C., May 13, 1950, at approximately 7:15 p. m. en route to New Orleans, Louisiana. On the next day approximately one-half hour before arriving at Flomaton, Alabama, the plaintiff made inquiry of the Pullman porter…