Ellis v. Southern Pac. Co.

LUJAN, Justice.

The judgment to be reviewed is one awarding damages to the plaintiff below, who is appellee here, on account of personal injuries suffered in a fall in alighting as a passenger from one of defendant’s trains while making a scheduled stop at the railway station of Duncan, Arizona. The only ground of negligence set up in the complaint is the failure on defendant’s part to provide a footstool for use by passengers in alighting, thus leaving an unsafe distance between the last step on the coach and the surface of the station platform to be negotiated by passengers in alighting from…