Mize v. Southern Railway Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Complaint; from city court of Miller county—Judge Geer. Jan-, uary 13, 1914. The action was against the Southern Railway Company and the Pullman Company, for injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff while alighting at Roekmart, Georgia, from a Pullman poach, which formed a part of the train of the Southern Railway Company. As to the Pullman Company the suit was dismissed on general demurrer; and the ease came to this court on exceptions to that judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtWade, J.
1. It is the duty of a railway company to provide at its stations sufficient and reasonably safe means to enable passengers to alight from ears without danger, and to stop its cars at a place where prudent persons may safely descend therefrom. Where a train of a railway company passes a station or the usual place for passengers to alight, or stops short thereof, and the carrier requires a passenger to alight without assistance, in an unusual and unsafe place, it will be liable for any injury resulting therefrom. 2 Moore on Carriers (2d ed.), 1231-1233, and authorities there cited.
2. Where the…
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