Southern Railway Co. v. Herron
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Walker county. Heard before Hon. J. J. Curtis. Transferred from Court of Appeals. Action by Eliza Herron against tbe Southern Railway Company for damages for carrying her beyond her destination as a passenger. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The plaintiff sues to recover for the alleged negligence of the defendant, a common carrier of passengers, in carrying her by the station of Coalburg, which was her destination, and to which, as a passenger on a local passenger train, her transportation had been paid.
There was neither pleading nor evidence to support a recovery for defendant’s negligence in not providing a safe place for plaintiff to alight, and the sole questions before the jury were: (1) Whether plaintiff was *663seasonably informed in tbe usual way that her train was arriving at her destination; and (2) whether after its…
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