St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Overton
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court; Eugene Lank-ford, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Pauline Overton, through her nest friend and father, J. S. Overton, instituted this suit against the appellant for personal injuries.
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Appeal from Monroe Circuit Court; Eugene Lank-ford, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Pauline Overton, through her nest friend and father, J. S. Overton, instituted this suit against the appellant for personal injuries. The facts, as they might have been found by the jury, giving the evidence its strongest probative force in favor of the appellee, are substantially as follows: On the morning of June 28, 1913, Mrs. Overton, the mother of Pauline, went with Pauline and 'other children to the station of Brinkley for the purpose of going on appellant’s local freight train to visit her father, who…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). The appellant contends that the court erred in granting appellee’s prayer for instruction No. 1. An instruction in this form was approved.by this court in Ark. S. W. Rd. Co. v. Wingfield, 94 Ark. 75. In that case Mrs. "Wingfield sued for personal injuries alleged to have been received by her from a sudden jar caused by the coupling of a mixed freight and passenger train on which she had taken her seat as a passenger. Two seats were turned facing each other in the coach which she entered and she and her husband sat in one of them. While waiting in the yards…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Railway Co. v. SweetSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1895
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. BirdSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1913
- Arkansas Southwestern Railroad v. WingfieldSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. BrabbzsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. HartungSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
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