Griffin v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

This action was prosecuted by the plaintiff for the recovery of damages, alleged to have been sustained while in the act of alighting from the defendant's train. The plaintiff, at the appearance term, filed his complaint, alleging that on the day therein named he purchased a ticket of defendant's agent at Kelford to Palmyra, both stations being on the defendant's road, and boarded the train, delivering his ticket to the conductor; that when the train stopped at Palmyra plaintiff proceeded to get off, and while in the act of stepping off, without notice or warning to him, the engineer…