Easterling Lumber Co. v. Pierce
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Covington county. IioN. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Suit by S. W. Pierce against the Easterling Lumber . Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtPeed, J.
Appellee obtained judgment against appellant in the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars for damages from personal injury. At the time he was injured, he was employed by the appellant company as an engineer in charge of an engine which was engaged in pulling a train carrying employees of appellant company from its mill at Ora to its camp in the woods over its logging railway, a distance of about fifteen miles. The injury resulted from a head-on collision between the engine which was in charge of appellee and an engine known as the “Shay,” pulling cars from the camp. Appellee charged…
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