Rape v. Mobile & O. R. R.

This is an,appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Monroe county, Miss., entered in pursuance of a peremptory instruction granted to the defendant at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence.

The plaintiff’s declaration alleged, in substance, that on September 9, 1922, the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company, through its superintendent, J. G. Minniece, entered into a verbal contract with plaintiff at Okolona, Miss., whereby plaintiff was to work for said railroad company as a car repairer at Okolona, Miss., at the rate *45of five dollars and four cents per day, or such sum as the United, States…