Ex Parte Alabama Great Southern R. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Application by the Alabama Great Southern Railroad for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment of said court rendered in the case of Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Ber F. Hunt, 86 South. 97. The following is charge 2 given for the plaintiff: I charge you that if you believe from the testimony that this plaintiff was treated as he-says he was on the occasion when he jumped from the train, and if you further…
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Certiorari to Court of Appeals. Application by the Alabama Great Southern Railroad for certiorari to the Court of Appeals to review and revise the judgment of said court rendered in the case of Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Ber F. Hunt, 86 South. 97. The following is charge 2 given for the plaintiff: I charge you that if you believe from the testimony that this plaintiff was treated as he-says he was on the occasion when he jumped from the train, and if you further believe that the men operating the train, or any of them, had knowledge of his treatment, or if from the circumstances they…
1Opinion of the Court
McCLELLAN, ,T.
The plaintiff (appellee) sued the appellant (defendant) for damages for personal injuries suffered by him in leaping through the window of a moving train, upon which he was a passenger, because of threats, taunting, etc., directed to him, causing fright or fear, either by fellow passengers, from whose words or conduct the plaintiff claimed he should have been protected by the employes of the defendant, or to which he was subjected by employes of the defendant, for the consequences of which the defendant is accountable. Birmingham Railway & Elec. Co. v. Baird, 130 Ala. 334, 30…
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