Harris v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

In this action appellant sought to recover damages alleged to have been caused by the negligence of appellee, a railroad corporation. He is averred to have been a passenger upon one of appellee’s passenger-trains running from Louisville, Kentucky, to Jeffersonville, Indiana. Pearl street, in said last-named city, was a regular stopping place, and was announced by those in charge of the train which stopped to discharge and receive passengers. Appellant avers that he then stepped from the lower step of the rear end of the coach in which he was riding upon the platform provided by appellee for…