Hollingshed v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Quitman county. Hon. Sam C. Cook, Judge. Suit by Will Hollingshed against'the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. From a judgment for a small amount for the plaintiff, he appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Quitman county. Hon. Sam C. Cook, Judge. Suit by Will Hollingshed against'the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. From a judgment for a small amount for the plaintiff, he appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. In this case there can be no question of contributory negligence for the proof is all one way that plaintiff below was in the camp cars on the spur track by the authority of the defendant and had been placed in that situation by the employes of defendant. By the third, fourth and fifth instructions given for defendant,…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
The appellant, Will Hollingshed, sued appellee, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Eailroad Company, for personal injuries, and recovered a judgment for one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents, from which judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.
At the time of. the injury complained of, appellant was employed as a cook for a railroad logging crew. A part of this logging train consisted of two camp cars, in one of which appellant did the cooking for the employes. These two camp cars, at the time of the injury, were standing on a spur track of appellee’s railroad, and appellant was in…
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