Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Turnbull
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Oiirisman, Judge. Action by appellee, Henry Turnbull, against the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company, to recover ten thousand dollars damages for personal injuries. At the time of the injury plaintiff was a laborer in the employ of a compress company, and was engaged about his duties in trucking cotton on the platform of said company, and within its in closure.
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From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Oiirisman, Judge. Action by appellee, Henry Turnbull, against the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company, to recover ten thousand dollars damages for personal injuries. At the time of the injury plaintiff was a laborer in the employ of a compress company, and was engaged about his duties in trucking cotton on the platform of said company, and within its in closure. A spur track of defendant’s railroad enters the compress building, and was used for placing cars within the same, convenient for loading and unloading. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The first and third replications of the plaintiff' in the court below to the second plea of the defendant may be disregarded by us. The first replication denies the execution of the release pleaded by defendant, and the third asserts that the release was obtained by imposition and misrepresentation practiced upon and made to the plaintiff by defendant’s, agent, who procured the release, as to the character of the paper signed, the plaintiff being made to believe that the release was only designéd to cover the expenses of his illness, and to compensate him for his loss of time resulting from…
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