Carson v. Railway Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM SHELBY. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Slielby County. L. H. Estes, J.
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, J.
This is an action of debt, tried below and here on an “agreed state of facts.”
The plaintiff, Sam Carson, was in the service of the defendant, the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company, as brakemau on one of its trains running from Memphis to -Chattanooga and 'back again, through Mississippi and Alabama. He was a citizen of Tennessee, made his contract of employment here, and usually received his wages at Memphis, though no place of payment was named in the contract.
While so employed the plaintiff, in the month of. May, 1888, earned $20.45, which, by the custom of the company, became due and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Johnson v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1801
- Watkins v. CasonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1872
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- Great American Insurance v. StevensSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1928
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