Southern Railway Co. v. Maxwell

This action was brought in the law court at Johnson City by the appellee to recover damages for the killing' of his intestate, J. W.. Ball, on the line of the railway company. There were verdict and judgment for $2,500 in favor of the appellee, from which the appellant company, after the overruling of a motion for a new trial, and also a motion in arrest- of judgment, prayed an appeal to this court, and has here assigned three errors to the action of the court below.

In the view w’e take of this case, it will be necessary to consider only two of the errors assigned.

The first assignment…