46 So. 495 | Ala. | 1908
This was an action for damages for the wrongful killing of plaintiff’s intestate. It is insisted, first, that the court erred in suustaining the demurrers to the first 10 counts of the complaint. After the sustaining of said demurrers, the plaintiff filed a number of other counts, which substantially state the same cause of action as alleged in said 101 counts, and under which all of the evidence which would be relevant to said 10 original counts could be considered. Consequently, if there was error in sustaining the demurrers to these first 10 counts, it was error without injury.
The court gave the general affirmative charge in favor of the defendant. There was evidence which tended to show that the conductor, or the person who was acting as conductor, ordered the plaintiff’s intestate to
It is recognized that it is dangerous for a passenger to pass from one car to another while the train is in rapid motion; and while the improvements, in arranging the platforms and vestibnling the cars, has minimized and in some cases done away entirely with the danger of passing from car to car, so that it cannot he said that in every case it is contributory negligence for a passenger to pass from one car to another, or negligence for the conductor to require him to pass from one to another, while the train is in rapid motion, this depends upon the conditions, such as the manner in which the cars are coupled, the speed at which the train is moving, the condition of the track, and whether it is straight or curved, and also upon the condition of the passenger; for, if the passenger is weak or intoxicated, greater caution is suggested. If the conditions were such as to render it dangerous for plaintiff’s intestate to pass from one car to another, and he was either forced or ordered out of the car in which he was riding, by the conductor
It results that the court erred in giving the general charge, in favor of the defendant.
The judgment of the court is reversed, and the cause remanded.