Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. v. Campbell

The complaint in this case counts upon a breach of the defendant carrier’s contractual undertaking to carry the plaintiff from Boaz to Littleton. The allegation of breach is that defendant failed to stop its train, on which plaintiff traveled, at Littleton, the point of her destination, and carried her on by and beyond the station. The complaint shows that the train returned to the station, and there discharged the plaintiff.

While there might be circumstances which would justify the failure of a passenger train to stop at a point to which it has undertaken to carry and discharge passengers —…