Henderson v. Southern Ry. Co.

GARDNER, Justice.

Plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s train en route from Asheville, North Carolina, to Decatur, Alabama, and at Chattanooga, Tennessee, was directed by defendant’s employee to change to the coach ahead, which she did, following the flagman out of the coach. She insists that as she passed through the door, “it slammed and hit me on the arm,” causing the injuries for which she sues.

Plaintiff’s case in counts 2 and 3 rests upon negligence of the employees in charge of the train, the latter count designating the conductor; while count 4 rests upon a defect in the mechanism of…