Gulf, M. N.R. Co. v. Sparkman

Appellee recovered judgment in the sum of $2000' against the appellant, railroad company, in the circuit court of Leake county, for injuries received' by him be-, cause of the alleged negligence of the company in the derailment of one of its freight trains at the flag station of Tuscola on its line of railroad between Jackson and Union, Miss.

The evidence disclosed that on July 18, 1935, the appellee went to this flag station with the idea of seeing the company’s new stream-line train, known, as “The Rebel,” on its first run, and also for the purpose of taking passage on the train in the event…