Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Skaggs

Appellee, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, sued the railroad company, averring that in alighting at night from a passenger coach he was severely and permanently injured by reason of the negligence of the carrier in respect to the stepbox used on that occasion. We will have occasion to note that, as shown by the present record, the plaintiff here is the same person who was plaintiff in Oliver Bus Lines v. Skaggs, 174 Miss. 201, 164 So. 9.

When all the cases on the subject of stepboxes are grouped around Scott v. Vicksburg, etc., Ry. Co., 150 La. 537, 90 So. 840, 20 A. L, R. 908, which…