Railway Co. v. Wilson
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Shelby County. W. D. Beard, 8p. J.
1Opinion of the CourtSnodgrass, J.
The defendant in error recovered judgment against the Little Rock and Memphis Railroad Company for $1,500 damages for injuries sustained while drunk and asleep on its track in Fulton Street, Memphis, Tennessee.
The accident occurred at a point about thirty yai’ds north of Market Street, during the night of October 10, 1889, and while the employes of the company were, by means of an engine in the rear of a train of nine cars, pushing the train into the company’s yard south of Market Street. The front car of this train ran over Wilson, causing the loss of one arm and partial loss of the other.
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