Berry v. Pullman Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi; Henry C. Niles, Judge. Action by Mrs. A. L. Berry against the Pullman Company. There was a judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN. District Judge.
The plaintiff in error here brought suit against the Pullman Company for damages, alleged in the petition to be $25,000, for injuries she sustained while being removed from a Pullman car on which she was a passenger from Memphis, Tenn., to Tupelo, Miss. She alleges that when she went on the Pullman car the company had notice that she was an invalid and would require special attention as such. The Pullman car was being operated from Memphis to Tupelo over the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, of which James W. Lusk, W. B. Biddle, and W. C. Nixon were at that time…
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