Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Myers

(1, 2) Action by appellee, as plaintiff below, against appellant, as a common carrier, for putting plaintiff (a woman) off the train at the wrong station. The .complaint alleged in effect, and the evidence for plaintiff tended to show, that plaintiff purchased a ticket and boarded defendant’s train at Birmingham for Roebuck, Ala.; that her ticket was taken by the conductor, whom plaintiff told at the time that she wanted to get off at Roebuck, the point named in her ticket; that when the train reached Coalmont, which was the last station before reaching Roebuck, and about a mile and a half…