Southern Railway Co. v. Stephens

The following is a fair statement of the- case as *201made by the pleadings and the evidence: On July 19, 1917, the plaintiff boarded a train of defendant’s railway at Pryor’s Station, Borne, Georgia, for Birmingham, Alabama, and paid his fare to the conductor in charge of the train to Anniston, Alabama, taking a receipt therefor. The train stopped an unusual length of time at Jacksonville, Alabama, and, as it was very warm in the coach, the plaintiff left the train, with several other passengers, in order to ascertain from the conductor the cause of the delay, and was informed by him that there…