South & North Alabama Railroad v. Schaufler
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Cullman Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. LeRoy F. Box. This was an action by Charles Sehaufler against the South North Alabama Railroad Company, a domestic corporation, to recover- damages for personal injuries sustained by him while a passenger on the defendant’s train.
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Appeal from Cullman Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. LeRoy F. Box. This was an action by Charles Sehaufler against the South North Alabama Railroad Company, a domestic corporation, to recover- damages for personal injuries sustained by him while a passenger on the defendant’s train. The defendant’s pleas are not set out in the record, but the judgment entry recites that the cause was tried on issues joined on the plea of not guilty and on a “ special plea of contributory negligence.” The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff; and from the judgment rendered the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeryille, J.
The present suit is one for damages, instituted by the appellee, who was a passenger on the defendant’s railroad train, having paid his fare for transportation to Cullman, a station or depot on the line of the road within this State. The averment of the complaint is, that the plaintiff, without any fault of his own, “ was compelled and forced by *140the agents of said defendant to get off defendant’s train while in motion, and before said train had readied the usual stopping-place at said depot,” and that the plaintiff’s injury was produced by the negligence of defendant’s agents “m compelling…
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