Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Berry

Martha Berry sued the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company to recover damages for injuries received while alighting from one of the defendant’s local freight and passenger trains at Greenwood, Ark. She recovered judgment, and from the judgment rendered, the railroad company has duly prosecuted this appeal.

Martha Berry was seventy years of age at the time she was injured. She boarded one of the defendant’s local freight trains, which also carried passengers, to go from her daughter’s home in Van Burén, Ark., to her own home in Greenwood, Ark. There were nineteen ears in the train. Fifteen of…