Loper v. Yazoo M.V.R. Co.

The appellant says that he was forcibly ejected from an engine of the appellee by the fireman thereof, and injured. He sued the appellee for damages alleged to have resulted to him therefrom. At the close of the evidence, the court directed a verdict for the appellee, and there was a judgment accordingly.

The evidence of the appellant is, in substance, that he was riding, as a trespasser, on the back end of the tender of one of the appellee’s engines; that he was ordered off by the fireman of the engine, got down “between the rods of the car,” and was then knocked off by the fireman with a…