Atkinson v. Mercer

1. While generally a railroad company’s employees in charge of a passenger-train are not required to physically assist passengers to alight therefrom, yet in a particular ease there may be circumstances which impose such a duty. And where a passenger is an old woman, encumbered with the care of four children, nine, seven, five, and three *463years of age respectively, and one of them is sick, and the passenger thus encumbered requests the assistance of the conductor in changing ears, it is a question for a jury to determine whether a failure to render such assistance under these circumstances…