Illinois Cent. R. v. Hawkins
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Carroll county. Hon. H. H. Rodgers, Judge. Suit by Margaret Hawkins against the Illinois Central Railroad Company. From ,a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHolden, J.
Miss Margaret M. Hawkins, the plaintiff, a young lady twenty-three years of age, resident of Atlanta, Ga., brought suit in the circuit court, Second judicial district of Carroll county, to recover two, thousand, nine hundred and ninety dollars damages alleged to have been sustained on account of the “wanton, willful, negligent, .and reckless conduct” of appellant railroad company in failing to transport her from Yaiden to Holly Springs, Miss., on schedule time, on one of its local passenger trains, in May, 1915, and from a verdict and judgment for eight hundred dollars actual and punitive…
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- Illinois Central Railroad v. HarperMississippi Supreme Court · 1903
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