Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Scarbrough

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Late in the evening of July 22, 1922, appellee 'became a passenger at Typo, Kentucky, on one of appellant’s trains. She was bound for Lock 13, a flag station at which no depot was maintained but only a platform of cinders and screenings. She arrived at her destination shortly after midnight. In this suit she claims that the train on which she was a passenger ran some 200 or 300 yards beyond the station platform; that as she started through the car to alight from the front platform she was directed by the conductor to turn back and get off from…