Williams v. Southern Ry.

March 30, 1904. The opinion of the Court was delivered by This action, under Lord Campbell's Act, was brought to recover $1,990 damages from the defendant, alleging that, through the negligence of the defendant, one Wallace Williams, a lad of fourteen years, had his leg cut off by one of the defendant's trains, on the 16th April, 1902, and died therefrom on the 3d July, 1902. That the negligence of the defendant consisted in failing to blow the whistle or ring the bell of the engine, drawing the train, as required by law, and also running at a reckless speed across a street crossing in the…