Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Pigg

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

In October, 1920, tbe appellee, a married woman 24 years of age, was carried past her destination, Heidelberg, and left tbe train six miles beyond, at Beattyville, tbe county seat of tbe county in which she resided. It was then dark, cold and between three and four o’clock in the morning, and although she was sick and thinly clad, she walked back to Heidelberg and three miles out in the country to her home.

Alleging negligence of defendant’s employees in failing to call her station as required by law, she instituted this action for damages, and…