St. Louis & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Mills

Appellee recovered a judgment against' appellant for personal injuries sustained in alighting from a passenger train. Appellee was a passenger, had arrived at his destination, and undertook to alight after the train had begun to move away. He was, as he testified, 77 years old. He claims that as he stepped off the train he had a bundle under one arm and a sack in the other, his foot slipped, and the flagman caught him and helped him to get up, and then “he jerked my hand loose from that bar, * * * and I made me a jump and he gave me a shove with both hands; I don’t know what he done that…