Louisville N. R. Co. v. Bowen

Appellee recovered a judgment for injuries received on one of appellant’s trains conveying United States mail, while engaged in his duties as a postal clerk thereon. The relation between the plaintiff and defendant was that of carrier and passenger, and it is not questioned that the defendant owed to the plaintiff the same degree of care as was due its passengers. Southern Ry. Co. v. Harrington, 166 Ala. 630, 52 So. 57, 139 Am. St. Rep. 59; 6 Cyc. 542.

There were several exceptions reserved by the defendant to separate portions of the oral charge of the court, and the assignments of error…