Pennsylvania Co. v. Marion

The complaint in this case avers that, on the 6th day of December, 1882, the plaintiff took passage on one of the defendant’s trains at Gosport, in Owen county, to be carried thence to Mundyls Station, a regular passenger station on the defendant’s line; that about a half mile from the station, which was reached about 11 o’clock A. m., the train on which he was proceeding slacked up so that when it reached the station it was moving at a very slow rate of speed, so that the plaintiff could have alighted therefrom with safety if there had been a suitable platform or other suitable place…