Gordon v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.

McGehee, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court. '

The plaintiff appealed I rom the ruling of the trial court in excluding the evidence offered on his behalf and directing a verdict in favor of the defendant railroad company, whereby he was denied a recovery of damages for a personal injury sustained when he was caused to fall while walking at night across the railroad tracks immediately north of the depot in the City of Crystal Springs where the line of railroad extends north and south and is intersected by a 50-foot street which is paved up to the outermost steel rail on each side of the…