Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Gray

Appellee was injured while alighting • from one of appellant’s passenger trains, and prosecuted an action against it for damages. His complaint was in three paragraphs. The first paragraph avers that appellee took passage on one of appellant’s trains at Logansport, to go to Galveston, and paid the regular fare to said last named station; that when the train stopped at Galveston he arose from his seat and passed out of the car, where he was riding, onto the platform for the purpose of getting off; that when he was about to descend the car steps, appellant’s agent in charge of the train…