Owen v. Illinois Central Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
BroM the circuit court, second district, of Panola county. Hon. Z. II. StepiieNS, Judge. Owen, the appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below; tho railroad company, appellee, was defendant there. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The railroad company had judgment acquitting it from all liability in the circuit court, and the plaintiff appealed to the supreme court.
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BroM the circuit court, second district, of Panola county. Hon. Z. II. StepiieNS, Judge. Owen, the appellant, was the plaintiff in the court below; tho railroad company, appellee, was defendant there. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. The railroad company had judgment acquitting it from all liability in the circuit court, and the plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. We have in this case three distinct, separate, good reasons why the defendant is liable to the plaintiff for his injury. 1. It was caused by defective or improper appliances, machinery or loading…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
Appellant brought suit agaiusf the defendant for personal injuries inflicted by the running of the locomotive and cars of the defendant company, alleging the infliction of great and grievous injury upon him by reason of the negligence of said company; said injuries were alleged to have been inflicted upon the plaintiff below by reason of one or more of four several grounds of negligence set out in the disjunctive. No objection, *145however, was made to the form of the declaration, nor was any objection interposed to the evidence as not supporting some one of the canses alleged, or of a cause of…
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