St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Clemons

415 S.W.2d 332 (1967)

242 Ark. 707

ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY CO., Appellant,

v.

Earl B. CLEMONS, Father and next friend of Marlon Lee Clemons, a minor, Appellee.

No. 5-4185.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 29, 1967.

Coleman, Gantt, Ramsay & Cox, Pine Bluff, for appellant.

Wynne & Wynne, Fordyce, and W. C. Medley, Hampton, for appellee.

BROWN, Justice.

This is an appeal by St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company from a jury verdict of $15,000 awarded Earl B. Clemons, as father and next friend of his fourteen-year-old son, Marion Lee Clemons. The boy is alleged to have received serious injuries from…