Jeffries v. Seaboard Air Line Railroad

Carrie'Jeffries, three years old, while straying upon defendant’s track, was injured by its locomotive, causing the loss of her right arm at the shoulder. Some of the defendant’s exceptions, taken out of abundant caution on the trial, were properly abandoned here, and we will only discuss those insisted on in the argument, though we have examined them all.

The first exception was to the admission of evidence that the child had no property and no source of income. This, standing alone, might have been irrelevant testimony, and the admission of such is no error, unless it is injurious to the…