Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company v. Margaret De Mayo

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff, appellee, was awarded a verdict in the sum of $25,000 for injuries allegedly received when she tripped over the loose end of a bracket which held the cover of a steam heating pipe extending along one of the end corridors of appellant’s passenger coach. In some way, unexplained, one end of the bracket had become detached, some screws were missing, and it protruded a few inches into the aisle. The suit was by the husband and wife, alleging that the latter was a passenger upon one of appellant’s trains and that in returning to her seat on the coach from the…