Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Cornelius

The appellee, Frank Cornelius, recovered a judgment in the circuit court of Coahoma county against appellant, Yazoo & ‘Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, for damages for a personal injury suffered by him through the alleged wrong of one of appellant’s brakemen in shootingappellee while the latter was stealing a ride on one of appellant’s freight trains, from which judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

The errors assigned and argued, which are deemed of sufficient seriousness to notice, are that the court should have granted appellant’s request for a directed verdict, and, if mistaken in…