Burgin v. Richmond & Danville Railroad

Shepherd, C. J.:

This action is brought for the recovery of damages sustained by the plaintiff in jumping from the defendant’s train while it was in motion. It appears from the complaint that the plaintiff informed the conductor that he desired to get off at Round Knob, a station on the defendant’s road, where it was the duty of the defendant to stop its train, but that defendant “ negligently and .carelessly failed and refused to stop its said train at said station so that plaintiff, who was compelled to stop at said station, being at the time on his way home to the bedside of one of his…