Kercher's Administrator v. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad

On March 5, 1924, Henry Kereher, Sr., aged seventy-eight years, purchased from the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company a ticket from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Washington, District of Columbia, and from the Pullman Company a Pullman ticket from St. Petersburg to Washington. He left St. Petersburg in the evening of that day on Atlantic Coast Line train No. seventy-four, which was composed exclusively of *112vestibuled cars, including twelve Pullman cars. He occupied lower berth No. 5 in Pullman car No. 111-A, called “Escalón.” From St. Petersburg to Richmond, Virginia, the train was operated by…