Whitson v. Southern Ry. Co.

These two cases involve the same legal question. They were brought in the Circuit Court of Knox County to recover damages for personal injuries. On December 17, 1942, the plaintiff filed a pauper’s oath and caused a summons to issue and be served on the agent of the Southern Railway requiring* the defendant to appear ‘ ‘ on the first Monday of January next next to answer Mrs. Ivy Whitson in an action to her damage two thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars and ninety-nine ($2,-999.99) cents.” On the second day of the January Term, 1943, which was January 5, 1943, the plaintiff in each case…