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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt:...by reasonable effort and inconvenience, get home earlier." It was also argued that plaintifl' could not recover because she and her husband drove I to her mother's instead of to Poping. To I this the court said: "The evidence docs Where the plaintiff, a domestic servnot show how far it is from Ozark to ant, 29 years of age, was carried bePoping by public road; but, even if it is yond her station a distance of more than home or to her mother's if she had gotten off the train at Poping." Damages were held not to be excessive and judgment was aflirmed. St. Louis, I. M. & S. R. Co. v. Evans, 94 Ark. 324 (1910). E. Exposure to Cold and Rain in Dark Place. fused to stop, at the said station of Hatton, for a sufficient length of time for this plaintiff to alight therefrom with her said children and in fact failed and refused to stop at all, but pulled on through the said station of Hatton, without making any stop whatever, and plaintiff states, that before reaching the said stationof Hatton she notified the conductor and brakeman, in charge of said train, that she was going to get off at Hatton; that she had received a telegram that her father was in a dying condition; that Hutton was hcr nearest station to him and that she was anxious to reach him at the earliest possible moment, and that she was fully and positively assured, by the said employees of defendant in charge of said train, that the same would stop at Hutton, but plaintiff states and alleges, that she was carried by said station of Hutton and on to Vandervoort, a station north from Hatton, on'defendant's line of railway, about two miles, where, the plaintiff states, the said train stopped, and plaintifi alighted with her said children and...