Gulf, Mobile & Ohio R. v. Smith

Holmes, CL

The appellant prosecutes this appeal from an adverse judgment of the Circuit Court of Lawrence County *772awarding to the appellee damages in the amount of $5,000 for personal injuries. The declaration predicated liability upon alleged negligence of the appellant in failing to maintain its passenger station premises at Monticello, Mississippi, in a reasonably safe condition for persons lawfully using the same, and more particularly upon alleged negligence of the appellant in failing to properly light its said station premises, and in causing or permitting the tongue of its baggage or…