Rowe v. Alabama Power Co.

BROWN, Justice.

This is an action on the case by appellant against appellee to recover damages for personal injury.

The several counts of the complaint aver that the defendant was engaged in the business of operating an electric railway as a common carrier of passengers, and for hire or reward undertook to carry the plaintiff from Sheffield, Ala., “to another point on defendant’s railroad between Sheffield and Tuscumbia.”

The first count avers, further, “That defendant disregarded its duty in that behalf, did not use due and proper care that the plaintiff be safely carried by and upon said…