Illinois Central Railroad v. Minor
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the first district of Panola county. BLon. James T. Fant, Judge. The appellee, A. F. Minor, brought this action to recover of the Illinois Central Railroad Company damages for personal injuries suffered by him while a passenger. The injury was caused by a pistol, carelessly or wantonly discharged by a fellow-passenger in the same ear with plaintiff.
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From the circuit court of the first district of Panola county. BLon. James T. Fant, Judge. The appellee, A. F. Minor, brought this action to recover of the Illinois Central Railroad Company damages for personal injuries suffered by him while a passenger. The injury was caused by a pistol, carelessly or wantonly discharged by a fellow-passenger in the same ear with plaintiff. The occurrence took place upon an excursion train; which was being run by the defendant from the town of Sardis, Miss., to Memphis, Tenn. The excursionists were mostly negroes; and, after a day spent, in Memphis, the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The motion of the appellee to dismiss the appeal.and to affirm the judgment of the court below must be denied. If the appellant had made its motion in the court below to set aside the third verdict, and the same had been overruled, two former verdicts for the appellee having already been set aside for errors not of law, and the appellant had excepted, and had then brought its appeal to this court, on a general bill of exceptions to this -action of the trial court, we could not have considered it for any purpose whatever, as has been repeatedly held in this state. See Strickland v. Hudson, and…
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