Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Bell
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; J. C. B. Gwin, Judge. Action by Ella P. Bell against the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company for damages for injury sustained while a passenger. •Judgment for plaintiff, and' defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; J. C. B. Gwin, Judge. Action by Ella P. Bell against the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company for damages for injury sustained while a passenger. •Judgment for plaintiff, and' defendant appeals. Count 1, after stating plaintiff was a passenger, waiting at defendant’s regular passenger station in the city of Bessemer to take the incoming train, which was then about due at said station, alleges that defendant then and there negligently ran said train violently against plaintiff, and as a proximate result thereof, and of defendant’s said…
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, O. J.
[1, 2] This cause was submitted to the jury' on counts 1 and 2. Count 1 charges the injury of the plaintiff to the negligence of the defendant’s servants in the operation -of one of its trains which ran over or against her. It was open for the jury to find that the engineer in charge was guilty of negligence as to the speed at which the train was going when axiproaching the depot, and at the time said train collided with plaintiff, and that said negligence was the proximate cause of the injury. There was proof that the train was approaching at a rate of speed of from 15 to 20…
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