Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Mitchell
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Warren county. HoN. George AedersoN, Judge. Mitchell, appellee, was plaintiff, and the railroad company, appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a judgment for $1,000 in. plaintiff’s favor, the defendant appealed to the supreme court. On August 11, 1901, Mitchell bought a round-trip ticket from Vicksburg to Glass, a flag station on appellant’s line of road ten miles south of Vicksburg.
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From the circuit court of Warren county. HoN. George AedersoN, Judge. Mitchell, appellee, was plaintiff, and the railroad company, appellant, was defendant in the court below. From a judgment for $1,000 in. plaintiff’s favor, the defendant appealed to the supreme court. On August 11, 1901, Mitchell bought a round-trip ticket from Vicksburg to Glass, a flag station on appellant’s line of road ten miles south of Vicksburg. He went to Glass station on the morning train, and attempted to flag the evening train going to Vicksburg. The train passed without stopping, and he walked to Vicksburg. He…
1Opinion of the CourtTruly, J.
This case grew out of the same state of facts as did the case of Railroad v. White, 82 Miss., 120; s.c., 33 South., 970. As *183shown by the records, the evidence was substantially the same on each trial. The White case was reversed because of the refusal of the court 'below to grant the railroad company an instruction setting up a state of facts which rendered the infliction of punitive damages improper, and which was the converse of an instruction given for plaintiff. But in that case the court held that if the testimony for the plaintiff was true, and there was no reasonable explanation of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. WhiteMississippi Supreme Court · 1903
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Fenlon v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1918
- Davis v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1909
- Illinois Cent. R. v. HawkinsMississippi Supreme Court · 1917