Gladden v. Southern Railway Company

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice StabeEr.

The plaintiff alleged, among other things, that. on the morning of August 9, 1924, she became a paid passenger on one of defendant’s passenger trains from Rock Hill to Et. Mill, South Carolina; that the conductor and other agents of the defendant saw or should have seen that she was an old woman, very stout and feeble; that at Ft. Mill she left her seat to alight from the train; that while she was attempting to go down the steps of the coach, the train suddenly started without warning, she was thrown down, her hip bone was broken,…