Jones v. Mo. Pacific R.R. Co., Thompson, Trustee

Appellant, Climet Jones, sued appellee, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and Guy A. Thompson, Trustee, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received while alighting from appellee’s mixed freight and passenger train at Okolona, Arkansas, on April 3, 1940. He alleged in his complaint that after the train had stopped at Okolona, and while he was attempting to debark therefrom, appellee’s employes caused the train to move forward in a “sudden, violent and careless manner,” and as a result he was injured,

Appellee answered denying every material allegation of the complaint…