Legal Opinion
Southern Ry. Co. v. Lester
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 27, 1907No. 1,585PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
SEVERENS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error brought this suit to recover damages for a personal injury sustained by him in a disastrous collision which occurred near New Market, Tenn., on September 24, 1904, between two of the railway company’s trains on one of which the plaintiff below was a passenger, in consequence, as he alleges, of the negligence of the railway company. His injuries consisted of some wounds and bruises, but chiefly in a nervous shock from which he suffered several months and was for a long time under medical treatment. The negligence of the railway company was…
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