Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Hawkins

The appellee, Ross Hawkins, sued the defendant railroad company for damages on account of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him as a result of a fall caused by stepping on a banana peeling as he was alighting from a passenger train at Morton, Mississippi, and from a judgment in his favor for one thousand two hundred fifty dollars the defendant prosecuted this appeal.

This is the second appeal in this cause; the opinion of the court on the first appeal being reported in 159 Miss. 775, 132 So. 742. In the opinion on the first appeal, the essential facts are fully seated, and we…