Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Newsome

This suit was brought by Newsome and wife to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by Mrs. Newsome in alighting from one of the trains of plaintiff in error, on which she was a passenger, at the town of Jasper.

The particular train was of unusual length and when it stopped at this station the rear coach, in which Mrs. Newsome was riding, did not reach the station platform. In getting off this car Mrs. Newsome was assisted by a flagman, and she avers that by reason of the dangerous character of the place at which she was invited to alight, and the negligence of the flagman…