Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Powell

These two suits were brought by husband and wife and were tried together in Division Four of the Circuit Court of Shelby county, Tennessee, resulting in a judgment for $1,000 in favor of the plaintiff, Almeter Powell, and a judgment for $500 in favor of the plaintiff, R. H. Powell. The suits grew out of an accident occurring on the morning of February 8, 1928, at the Memphis Union Station, in which the plaintiff, Almeter Powell, fell upon the station, platform when alighting from one of the defendant’s trains. The suits being companion cases and having been tried together, will be discussed…