Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Manness

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

Mrs. Laura Manness, while a passenger on a Louisville & Nashville Railroad train, on the 11th of April, 1926, en route from Corbin in Whitley county to Gatum in Harlan county, was carried beyond her destination. In a suit for damages occasioned thereby, she recovered a judgment for $500, and the railway company appeals.

Appellee’s brother, who lived in the mountains 6 miles from Gatum, was seriously ill. She was on her way to visit him, and he had arranged for her to be met on her arrival and taken to his house. She had never been in that…