St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellee brought this suit for damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained while a passenger, boarding appellant’s passenger train at Oliphint, Arkansas.
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellee brought this suit for damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained while a passenger, boarding appellant’s passenger train at Oliphint, Arkansas. It was alleged that the railroad company negligently failed to stop the train a reasonable length of time to enable her to enter the car, negligently caused the train to give a quick and sudden start, and then to come to a quick and sudden stop, while she was on the steps of the platform, causing her body to be violently twisted and jerked, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts). It is urgently insisted that the court erred in permitting the medical experts, Doctors Brown and Jones, to testify as to the cause of appellee’s condition from a history of her case as related to them by her, and repeated by them to the ■jury, and with this contention we agree.
There was no testimony relating to the occurrence of the injury as claimed by appellee, except her own statement of it. All the employees of the railroad company on the train testified that the train stopped a reasonable length of time for the taking of passengers aboard; that there…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Holloway v. Kansas CitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1904
- Jones v. President of PortlandMichigan Supreme Court · 1891
- Fordyce v. McCantsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1889
- St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. FithianSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1913
- Lee v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.District Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1913
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