Sands v. Southern Ry. Co.

The plaintiff, an infant, by his nest friend, sues the railroad company for damages for personal injuries.

The facts developed by the proof are, that the plaintiff, Albert Sands, a boy about 16 years of age, went to the K. & O. depot, for the purpose of riding . to Luttrell, a distance of twenty-two miles, on a freight train. He obtained permission from a negro brakeman to ride on an outgoing freight train upon the payment of twenty-five cents. The negro brakeman told him to “go on the opposite side of the train and get on the car/'' telling him “that the train would stop at Luttrell for…