Gulf, M. & N. R. v. Nutt
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Tippah county. IloN. J. D. Bates, Judge. Suit hy .C. C. Nutt against the Gulf, Mobile & Nathen Railroad Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
-Smith, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a judgment for one hundred and fifty dollars awarded' the appellee in the court below for an injury alleged to have been sustained hy him while employed hy the appellant and because of its negligence.
On the occasion in question the section crew, of which appellee was a member, was ordered hy their foreman to gather up a lot of cross-ties which had been placed near the appellant’s railroad track, carry them a distance of thirty or forty feet, and place them in one stack. The appellee testified that at the time óf his…
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