WINDHAM v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

No. 7097.

71 F.2d 115 (1934)

WINDHAM v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 31, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. S. Lewis, of Dothan, Ala., for appellant.

A. H. Arrington, of Montgomery, Ala., and W. L. Lee and A. K. Merrill, both of Dothan, Ala., for appellee.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, as a passenger, entered a coach of appellee's train at Dothan, Alabama, at a little after noon and walked back to about the third seat. While in the act of taking her seat there, she slipped on a black ripe banana peel an inch and a half wide and from two to three inches long, sustaining serious injuries. On the trial of her action for damages she proved this and no more. Where the peel came from, who put it there, or when or how...

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