122 Ga. 307 | Ga. | 1905
W. H. Raitíey brought an action against the Seaboard Air-Line Railway for damages. In the view that we take of the case, the material allegations of the petition are as follows: Plaintiff purchased a ticket from defendant’s agent at Savannah, Georgia, for passage from that point to Brunswick, Georgia, over defendánt’s road from Savannah to Thalman and over the Atlantic & Birmingham Railroad from Thalman to Brunswick. After leaving Savannah, the conductor of defendant’s train examined plaintiff’s ticket and informed him that he must change cars at Thalman. “Being extremely tired petitioner went to sleep on said car, expecting that the said defendant’s said agent would arouse him and notify him of his arrival at Thalman, the place where he was expected to change cars to reach Brunswick. Petitioner is
It is well settled that it is the duty of a railroad company,, carrying passengers, in order to afford a passenger an opportunity to leave the train at the station of his destination, to have the name of such station announced upon the arrival of the train, and then to stop the train for a sufficient length of time for him to alight with safety.' Southern Railway Co. v. Hobbs, 118 Ga. 227. But there is no duty on the part of the railroad company to awaken a sleeping passenger, in order to advise him that his destination has been reached and to enable him to get off the train there. Nunn v. Georgia Railroad Co., 71 Ga. 710. While a demurrer to a petition or declaration is held to admit the truth of all the material, well pleaded facts alleged therein, it does not admit mere inferences therefrom. Southern Railway Co. v. Covenia, 100 Ga. 46; 6 Enc. Pl. & Pr. 336. Applying the rule that pleadings should be construed strictly, against the pleader, it is questionable whether the petition in the present case positively alleges that no agent of the defendant announced the arrival of the train at Thalman. But granting that such an allegation is substantially set out in the petition, it is still fatally defective, for the-reason that it does not appear that the plaintiff was misled thereby. He was asleep when the train arrived at Thalman, and although the petition alleges that had the conductor announced the-
Judgment reversed.