Pollard v. Jarrett

BROWN, Justice.

The gravamen of counts A and B, on which the case was submitted to the jury, is the negligence of the defendant’s station agent in selling plaintiff a ticket fixing her destination as Irondale and directing her to board a through train that did not stop at her destination. While ordinarily the passenger must inform himself as to the train on which the ticket entitles -him to carriage, he has the right to rely on the information he obtains from the carrier’s agent who sells the ticket. Lamb v. Mitchell, 16 Ala.App. 577, 80 So. 151; South & North Alabama Railroad Co. v. Huffman,…