Hinds v. Moore
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. R. W. Heidelberg, Judge. Action by Martha Moore and others against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, and another. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. R. W. Heidelberg, Judge. Action by Martha Moore and others against Walker D. Hines, Director General of Railroads, and another. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Assuming that the train had been running at a speed in excess of six miles an hour — say twelve to fifteen miles an hour as the jury had the right to find from the testimony, when outside the corporate limits but that the speed was reduced to six miles an hour immediately at the corporate limits, then we submit that it was for the jury to say whether or not the…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
This suit was brought in the circuit court by the appellee, Martha Moore, who sued for herself as mother and for two minor children of hers, as sisters, of Judge Moore, Jr., a negro boy eight years old, who ivas killed by a train of the New Orleans & North Eastern Railroad Company on Forty-Ninth avenue, a part of which avenue is within the corporate limits of the city of Meridian, and a part being without the corporate limits. The deceased was riding with his father in a Ford automobile, and while attempting to cross the railroad tracks the automobile was struck by a passenger train of the…
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- Illinois Central Railroad v. DillonMississippi Supreme Court · 1916
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