Alabama & Vicksburg Ry. Co. v. McCoy
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie circuit court of Scott county. Hok. C. L. Dobbs, Judge. Suit by Mrs. Pearl McCoy and others against the Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
D. S. Odom was run over and killed by a westbound passenger train of appellant, on February 12, 1912, at Merrill’s Mill, or Muskogen. His three children, appel-lees here, all adults of mature age, brought suit and obtained judgment for three thousand dollars. Merrill’s Mill is about three-quarters of a mile west of Lake, on appellant’s railroad, and it is not a stop for passenger trains. The Mill Company’s office is on the south side of the railroad, and the store on the north side. There is a walkway between the two buildings, which crosses the railroad track.
Mr. Odom was sixty-seven years…
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