Louisville & N. R. v. Compiretto

The appellee, Mrs. Jennie Compiretto, instituted this suit against the Louisville & Nashville Bailroad Company seeking to recover damages for a failure to safely transport her from the city of Gulfport, Miss., to New Orleans, La., and to furnish her a safe place or means of alighting from the defendant’s train, and from a judg*ment in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, this appeal was prosecuted..The declaration alleged that the defendant company entered into a contract with the plaintiff by which, in consideration--of the'price paid for a ticket, it…