Legal Opinion

State v. Reed

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1898PublishedCited by 11 opinions

From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. W. K. MoLaurin, Judge. The appellee, Reed, was prosecuted for the violation of § 1320, code of 1892, which makes it a misdemeanor for any person to go upon the inclosed lands of another without bis consent, after having been notified by the owner, or his agent, not to do so. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

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From the circuit court of Warren county. Hon. W. K. MoLaurin, Judge. The appellee, Reed, was prosecuted for the violation of § 1320, code of 1892, which makes it a misdemeanor for any person to go upon the inclosed lands of another without bis consent, after having been notified by the owner, or his agent, not to do so. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The question which appellee succeeded in inducing the court below to think involved in this case may be stated thus: Has a railway company the right to grant an exclusive privilege to one or more hackmen of entering its station…

1Opinion of the CourtWooes, C. J.

Joseph Reed, the appellee, was arrested upon affidavit charging him with trespassing upon private premises belonging to the Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Company, and was, before the justice of the peace, tried and convicted. He appealed from that conviction to the circuit court of Warren county, and was there tried upon an agreed statement of facts, and was, by the judgment of that court, acquitted of the charge and discharged. From this judgment of the circuit court the state prosecutes this appeal.

From the agreed statement of facts it appears that the depot of the railway company in the city…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Fluker v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1889
  2. Old Colony Railroad v. TrippMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
  3. Kalamazoo Hack & Bus Co. v. SootsmaMichigan Supreme Court · 1890
  4. McConnell v. PedigoCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1892
  5. Montana Union Railway Co. v. LangloisMontana Supreme Court · 1890

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1928
  2. Pennsylvania Co. v. City of ChicagoIllinois Supreme Court · 1899
  3. State Ex Rel. Burr v. Jacksonville Terminal Co.Supreme Court of Florida · 1925
  4. Donovan v. Pennsylvania Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1903
  5. Oregon Short Line R. v. DavidsonUtah Supreme Court · 1908

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