Louisville, New Orleans & Texas R. R. v. Conroy
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Ralph North, Judge. This is an action for damages brought by Patrick Conroy against the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas R. R. Co. for a personal injury alleged to have been occasioned by the negligent manner in which defendant’s servant, an engineer, ran its train. The jury found for the plaintiff and assessed the damages at one hundred dollars. From the verdict on such judgment the defendant appealed.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren County. Hon. Ralph North, Judge. This is an action for damages brought by Patrick Conroy against the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas R. R. Co. for a personal injury alleged to have been occasioned by the negligent manner in which defendant’s servant, an engineer, ran its train. The jury found for the plaintiff and assessed the damages at one hundred dollars. From the verdict on such judgment the defendant appealed. The second instruction for the plaintiff was as follows : “ Proof by the plaintiff of injury inflicted on him by the running of the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
In Railroad Company v. Norwood, 62 Miss. 565, we held the engineer to be the servant of the railroad company, though the train in his charge was at the time of the injury sued for in the service of an independent contractor who was doing certain work in the details of which the company had no interest. In that case the controversy was between the railroad company and a citizen, whose mule had been killed by the negligent running of the train, and liability was fixed upon the company. In the case now before us the question is as to the liability of the company for an injury inflicted by the…
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- New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg & Memphis Railroad v. NorwoodMississippi Supreme Court · 1885
- Harkins v. Standard Sugar RefineryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Chicago, St. Louis, & New Orleans Railroad v. TrotterMississippi Supreme Court · 1882
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- Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. HumphreyMississippi Supreme Court · 1903
- Gulfport & Mississippi Coast Traction Co. v. HicksMississippi Supreme Court · 1917
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