Woods v. Illinois Cent. R. Co.

Appellant brought this action against appellee in the circuit court of Copiah county to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been unlawfully inflicted on him by G. 0. Lord, one of appellee’s passenger conductors, while engaged about his duties in that capacity, and judgment was rendered in favor of appellant in the sum of two hundred dollars. From that judgment, appellant prosecutes an appeal and appellee a cross-appeal.

The basis of appellant’s appeal is that the amount of damages awarded him by the jury is so g’rossly inadequate to compensate him for the injury received as…