Gulf, M. N. R. Co. v. Pistole

Mrs. Pistole, appellee here, was a passenger in a touring car driven by her brother-in-law, one Curd, on the night of December 21, 1924, when the car upturned in a ditch, with the result that her collar bone was broken and other injuries sustained, not necessary here to detail. The ditch, which was about 10 feet wide and 6 feet in depth, was on the right of way of the Gulf, Mobile Northern Railroad Company, a few hundred feet beyond the city limits of Mobile, and was spanned by a bridge some 18 feet in width, also on said right of way. Her suit against said railway company is based upon the…