Mobile Light & R. R. v. Walsh
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard, before Hon. W. S. Anderson. 'This was an action for damages resulting from injury received by plaintiff’s wife as a passenger on defendant’s cars in attempting to alight therefrom. The damages claimed are for loss of companionship, medical attention, and mental anguish.
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Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard, before Hon. W. S. Anderson. 'This was an action for damages resulting from injury received by plaintiff’s wife as a passenger on defendant’s cars in attempting to alight therefrom. The damages claimed are for loss of companionship, medical attention, and mental anguish. The pleas were the general issue, and pleas of contributory negligence of plaintiff’s wife, Katherine Walsh, in the way and manner in which she alighted from the car when she received said injuries. The testimony tended to show that plaintiff’s wife was a passenger on defendant’s car…
1Opinion of the CourtTyson, J.
The plaintiff’s wife, who was a passenger upon one of the defendant’s street cars, was injured while alighting from the car, which was stationary at the time. The car was propelled beyond the usual place of stopping, after notice by plaintiff’s wife had been given to the conductor of the point at which she wished to get off, and was stopj)ed at a place where there was a depression in the street which made the .step from the car quite high. Tn alighting the wife’s leg was broken. When the *293car came to a stop, the testimony on behalf of the plaintiff tended to show that the wife called the…
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