Bond v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. This action was brought by the district-attorney pursuant to an order of the state railroad commission, against the appellant F. S., Bond, receiver of the Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Co., to recover the statutory penalty of $500, prescribed by the act of March 11, 1884, for failure to keep posted at Jackson, Miss., a bulletin board showing the time of the arrival and departure of…
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From the circuit court of the first district of Hinds county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. This action was brought by the district-attorney pursuant to an order of the state railroad commission, against the appellant F. S., Bond, receiver of the Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad Co., to recover the statutory penalty of $500, prescribed by the act of March 11, 1884, for failure to keep posted at Jackson, Miss., a bulletin board showing the time of the arrival and departure of trains. A demurrer was sustained to the declaration because it failed to specify the particular day on which the omission of…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The conclusion reached by us in this much argued and protract-edly considered case makes it necessary to examine two points only.
*6511. Was there reversible error in tbe action of the court below in refusing to enter the first verdict of the jury and in ordering a mistrial recorded?
It is wholly unnecessary for us to say whether the first verdict, as returned into court by the jury, was good or not. If it had been entered, the learned judge must have unhesitatingly caused it to be set aside, since it was without support from any evidence, from any quarter. There is no pretense that there was any…
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