Southern Ry. Co. v. Hutson

These are two suits brought to recover for injuries alleged to have been sustained by James Hutson, sixteen years old, when struck by a train of defendant company while an obstruction on the track, one suit being by the father and the other by a next friend for the minor. The Court of Appeals affirmed judgments for plaintiffs. It is insisted that motions by the defendant for directed verdicts should have been sustained. It is conceded that there was testimony that the boy was struck by the train and injured and that the statutory requirements applicable when an obstruction appears on the…