Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Wood

The plaintiff sued the railroad company for damages in the sum of $499, and obtained a verdict for $249.50. Her own evidence showed that she boarded a train of the defendant, accompanied by her infant child, who was sick, and presented the conductor with a ticket to a small station in Floyd county, near the city of Rome, her ultimate destination being the home of her parents, a short distance from the station for which she had a ticket. The train did not stop at her station, and she was carried on to Rome. Had she been put off at her station, she would have reached her parents’ home in time…