Shirley v. Southern Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Walker Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. J. J. Curtis. Suit by Marian Shirley against the Southern Railway Company for damages for the death of her intestate. Judgment for defendant and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
This is a suit for damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Mrs. Belle Shirley, alleged to have been caused by her being struck by a train of the Southern Railway Company.
Said intestate was an inmate of an infirmary at Corona, Ala., where she had been operated on. ' During the night she escaped from the hospital, and was found .lying on defendant’s right of way, between 7 and 8 o’clock on the morning of March 14, 1915, *103by the crew of a passing train. At the place where intestate was found the track was straight for some distance in the direction from whence the train came. Intestate…
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