Memphis & Charleston Railroad v. Green
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Alcorn County. Hon. B. B. Booke, Judge. The facts in this case and the assignments of error are fully .■set out in the opinion of the court. Defendant in error is only entitled to expenses in getting to his ■destination by other conveyances, and damages for delay and inconvenience and pecuniary loss incurred. Chitty on Car., •311; 2 Greenl. on Ev., 228 ; Theobald v. E. W. Ins. Co., 26 Eng.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Alcorn County. Hon. B. B. Booke, Judge. The facts in this case and the assignments of error are fully .■set out in the opinion of the court. Defendant in error is only entitled to expenses in getting to his ■destination by other conveyances, and damages for delay and inconvenience and pecuniary loss incurred. Chitty on Car., •311; 2 Greenl. on Ev., 228 ; Theobald v. E. W. Ins. Co., 26 Eng. L. &Eq., 438. Some early Mississippi cases have carried 'the doctrine to the extent of oppression. It is worthy of remark that cases Heimw. McCaughan, 32 Miss., 19, and Hurst’s…
1Opinion of the CourtTabBell, J.
C. A. Green purchased a ticket at Saulsbury, Tenn., entitling him to a conveyance, on the cars of the M. & C. R. R. Co., thence to Corinth, Miss. The then next passenger train was due at Saulsbury about half-past four a. m., at which hour the plaintiff in the action was at the depot of the company *782ready to take passage. The train, however, ran about sixty yards beyond the platform, where it momentarily halted, and then proceeded on its way, without affording the plaintiff an opportunity to get on board. The next conveyance was a freight train, about eight o’clock t&e same morning, on which…
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