Batton v. South & Worth Ala. Railroad
Supreme Court of Alabama
Action against Railroad Company by Female Passenger, on accoimt of Insulting Conduct of Strangers at Station. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Shelby. Tried before the Hou. S. II. Sprott. The opinion in this case states all the material facts. On all the evidence adduced, which is set out in the bill of exceptions, the court gave a general charge in favor of the defendant, to which the plaintiffs excepted, and which they now assign as error.
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The action is one of novel impression for which we nowhere find a precedent. It is a suit for damages against a common carrier — a railroad company — instituted by a passenger for the alleged negligence of the carrier in failing to protect the plaintiff, who was a female, and a single *592woman at the time of bringing the suit, against the nuisance of indecent language and conduct of certain unknown strangers, who proved disorderly in the presence of 'the plaintiff, while she was seated in the ladies’ waiting-room of a railroad station, belonging to the road line of the defendant company. No…
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