Illinois Central Railroad v. Williams

Opinion of the 'Court by

Judge Turner.

Affirming.

On the 16th of August, 1913, appellee was a passenger on appellant’s mixed passenger and freight train which ran from Hodgenyille to Elizabethtown. In alighting from the train at Elizabethtown he sprained his ankle, and instituted this action for damages, alleging that the accident happened by the reason of the negligence of the appellant.

His allegations are that at the point where the train stopped there was no convenient or suitable place or means provided whereby passengers might safely alight from the train, and that from the bottom step of…