Scott v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by Henry Scott against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Bailroad Company for personal injuries. From a judgment awarding insufficient damages, plaintiff appeals. Plaintiff was a brakeman of five or six years’ experience, earning about seventy-five dollars per month, and at the time of his injury was engaged in the performance of his duties in the employ of defendant.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by Henry Scott against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Bailroad Company for personal injuries. From a judgment awarding insufficient damages, plaintiff appeals. Plaintiff was a brakeman of five or six years’ experience, earning about seventy-five dollars per month, and at the time of his injury was engaged in the performance of his duties in the employ of defendant. One of the grabirons, to which brakemen hold when climbing on or descending from the top of- a car, gave way, and he fell and broke his leg, so that…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The jury having found that appellant’s injury was caused by reason of the negligence of appellee, it thereby became its duty to render such a verdict as would *524fairly compensate liim, not only for bis actual money loss, but also for Ms suffering and disability. Tbe verdict rendered, which was for the sum of one hundred dollars, is so grossly inadequate as to indicate that, in arriving at its verdict, the jury was influenced by passion, prejudice, or corruption.
The judgment of the court below is reversed, in ■ so far as it adjudges the amount of damages to be recovered, but in all other…
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