Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Dixon

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

The appellee, Mrs. Bessie Dixon, while waiting at the station of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company at Elizabethtown, to become a passenger on its train to Hpton, was injured by falling through a trapdoor on a porch which had been left open by appellant’s servant, and she sues to recover damages for this injury. The depot platform extended along in front of the depot and next to the tracks and was made of fine crushed limestone. At one end of the depot and running at right ^angles with the platform was a porch, the floor of which was wood…