Reno v. Yazoo & M. V. R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist; Prentice E. Edrington, Judge. Action by Jake Reno against the Yazoo & Mississippi Yalley Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The plaintiff sued for $15,000 damages for personal injuries. The jury gave a verdict in his favor for $3,000; and, from the judgment rendered thereon, the defendant has appealed. The plaintiff has answered the appeal, praying that the amount of the judgment be increased to $10,000.
At the time of the accident, the plaintiff was employed at a planing mill, in Gary-ville, a few hundred feet from the defendant’s railroad tracks, and he resided on the opposite side of the tracks, only three or four minutes’ walk from the point where Main street crosses the tracks. He was returning from his dinner…
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- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. CrossSupreme Court of Kansas · 1897
- T. C. R. R. Co. v. RandallCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1908
- Freeman v. TerryCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1912
- Platt v. Vicksburg, S. & Pacific Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
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