Yazoo & M. v. R. Co. v. Daily

Appellee, E. A. Daily, sued the appellant, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Co., claiming one hundred thousand dollars damages for personal injuries sustained by him on account of being run over by appellant’s passenger train. There was a verdict for. twenty-five thou sand dollars, a motion for a new trial, which was overruled, and a judgment was entered for appellee, D'aily, for said sum, twenty-five thousand dollars, from which judgment the appellant, the railroad company, prosecutes this appeal here.

The original declaration charged that for years the railroad company had maintained…