L. & N. R. R. v. Quinn
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Bibb Circuit Court. Heard, before Hon. B. M. Miller. Action by Chute Quinn, by next friend, against appellant for damages for being put off tbe train, on which be was a. passenger before reaching the station of his destination. The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff together with his mother purchased a ticket from Bloc-ton to Brookwood and was on defendant’s train as a passenger to be transported to that station. That when the train reached Alabama.
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Appeal from Bibb Circuit Court. Heard, before Hon. B. M. Miller. Action by Chute Quinn, by next friend, against appellant for damages for being put off tbe train, on which be was a. passenger before reaching the station of his destination. The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff together with his mother purchased a ticket from Bloc-ton to Brookwood and was on defendant’s train as a passenger to be transported to that station. That when the train reached Alabama. Junction, about a mile from point of destination, the conductor came through and told Mrs. Quinn that the train had to go to…
1Opinion of the CourtSimpson, J.
This is ah action for damages, brought by the appellee,- by next friend, against the appellant; the plaintiff being an infant of tender years traveling with his mother, who had a ticket from Blockton to Brookwood. The damages are claimed as the result of the mother, with the child, being compelled.to leave the *332train at Alabama Junction before reaching Brookwood.
Taking up the assignments of error as noticed in the brief of appellant, the testimony going to show that the engine went to a water tank near Brookwo’od Avas illegal. If the plaintiff was a passenger entitled to be carried io…
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- Blakey's Heirs v. Blakey'sSupreme Court of Alabama · 1859
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