St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Shipley

WILLSON, Chief Justice.

In alighting from one of appellant’s trains at Waldo, Arkansas, appellee’s wife was injured, as the proximate result, he alleged, of negligence on the part of appellant’s employes in failing to render to her the assistance it should have rendered to enable her safely to alight from said train. Appellee recovered a judgment against appellant in the sum of $500.

Appellee did not contend that appellant did not render any assistance to his. wife in getting off the train. His contention was that some assistance was rendered to her, but that same was not all that appellant’s…