St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Richardson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Miller Circuit Court; Jacob M. Carter, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellee, a commercial traveler, was a passenger on appellant’s train between Little Rock and Texarkana. He was riding in a sleeper. About ten o’clock in the morning, after he had made an effort to hang his hat on a hook, he was standing on both feet in the aisle of the car.
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Appeal from Miller Circuit Court; Jacob M. Carter, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellee, a commercial traveler, was a passenger on appellant’s train between Little Rock and Texarkana. He was riding in a sleeper. About ten o’clock in the morning, after he had made an effort to hang his hat on a hook, he was standing on both feet in the aisle of the car. The train was going at a very high rate of speed, and the car he was in gave a very decided lurch, causing appellee to fall, and to break the second joint of the third finger on the left hand. Appellee had been riding continuously on…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The evidence was sufficient to sustain the verdict, that appellant “was negligent in failing to maintain a reasonably safe track, free from low places and defects.”- The testimony of appellant tended to show that the injury to- appellee might have been produced by appellee being “off his balance” while the train was making a curve. But appellee’s evidence was in sharp conflict with this, and the question was one for the jury.
Appellant contends that the court erred in not .submitting to the jury its theory and contention, presented in its prayers numbered…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Railway Co. v. SweetSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1895
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. BarnettSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1898
- Hanger v. Evins & ShinnSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1881
- Railway Co. v. ThomasonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1894
- Mount Nebo Anthracite Coal Co. v. WilliamsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1905
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- Morris v. CollinsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1917