Stevens v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, second district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. • Stevens, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below, the railroad company appellee, was defendant there. From a judgmént in defendant’s favor plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the circuit court of, second district, Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. • Stevens, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below, the railroad company appellee, was defendant there. From a judgmént in defendant’s favor plaintiff appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. This action was brought by appellant to recover damages for personal injuries received by him while walking near the track of appellee from a train running at an unlawful speed in the city of Jackson. The tracks where he was walking when injured, had been generally used as a…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
The cause went off below on a peremptory charge of the learned circuit judge to the jury to find for defendant on the testimony for plaintiff. It follows that, in our view of it, we are to be controlled by a solution of the question whether a verdict for the plaintiff on that testimony would be permitted to stand. On that the jury would have been warranted in believing the following: The union passenger railroad depot of the city of Jackson is situated just north of Capitol street, which runs east and west, and crossing the railroad. The next street south is Pearl, and the next south of that…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad v. Van SteinburgMichigan Supreme Court · 1868
- Ga. Pacific Railway Co. v. LeeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
- Morgan v. Wabash RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1900
- Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad v. McGowanMississippi Supreme Court · 1885
- Bell v. Southern Railway Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1905
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- Hudson v. Louisville & N. R.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1929
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