Odom v. Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Simpson county. Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Suit by E. M. Odom against the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the declaration, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Simpson county. Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Suit by E. M. Odom against the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the declaration, plaintiff appeals. The.declaration omitting formal parts, is as follows: “On or about the 17th day of April, 1910, the defendant was a Mississippi corporation, doing business as a railroad company, and in the operation of its railroad it had depots up and down its line of railroad, and agents at said depots, or stations, with whom the general public would go and transact their business with the…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, C. J.
On the 28th of January, 1911, E. M. Odom brought a suit against the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, in which he sought to recover five thousand dollars damages for the failure of the depot agent to protect him from alleged abuse and maltreatment by a section fore*654man of the above railroad. It would be hardly worth while to set out .the declaration at length. We shall only set out the substance of the complaint as stated in the declaration. The declaration states that about the 17th of April, 1910, Odom went to the depot of the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, located at Star, for the…
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