Hooks v. Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co.

Citations

• 73 Miss. 145

Syllabus

<p>Railroads.' Station announced and trcdn stopped before reaching same. Injwy to ciMghting passenger. Case.</p> <p>When the approach of a railway passenger train to a place at which such trains usually stop is announced by the brakeman calling the name of the place, and the train is, in fact, stopped shortly after-wards, a passenger, who is a stranger to the locality, and has been informed'by the conductor that such announcement would be made, and the train stopped at the place called, on that trip, may reasonably conclude, when the train stops, that he has arrived at such place, it being in the night, and dark; and, if such place has not been reached, but the train stopped at a point where the ground is rough and uneven and covered with railway switches, and the passenger, who, upon the announcement being made, has gone upon the platform in anticipation of the stop, proceeds, when it occurs, to descend from the car, and, before he has completely alighted therefrom, is injured by a sudden forward movement of the train, the railway company is liable in damages for the injuries sustained.</p>