Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Farmer
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Houston County; H. A. 'Pearce, Judge. Action by Jennie Fanner against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, for damages for injury while a passenger. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under section 6, p. 449, Acts 1911. Plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s train en route from Abbeville to Dothan, involving a change of cars at Grimes.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Houston County; H. A. 'Pearce, Judge. Action by Jennie Fanner against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, for damages for injury while a passenger. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under section 6, p. 449, Acts 1911. Plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s train en route from Abbeville to Dothan, involving a change of cars at Grimes. The undisputed evidence shows that her coach was side-tracked at Grimes, so that its platform was a distance of three feet from the depot platform; that it was raining; that, after…
1Opinion of the Court
■SOMERVILLE, J.
[1,'2] A carrier must exercise care in providing reasonably safe and convenient means for the assistance and protection of passengers in getting on and off its cars. Central of Ga. Ry. Co. v. Carlisle, 2 Ala. App. 514, 56 South. 737; 10 C. J. 933, § 1354. “In the absence of circumstances rendering such assistance necessary, a carrier is not required to furnish a boarding or an alighting passenger with a portable box or footstool. But where the car step is unreasonably high, the carrier should furnish a box or footstool to facilitate the boarding or alighting of a passenger, and…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Young v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1902
- Central of Ga. Ry. Co. v. CarlisleAlabama Court of Appeals · 1911
- Texas Midland Railroad v. FreyCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1901
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