Southern Railway Co. v. Jones
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Crawford Circuit Court; C. W. Cook, Judge. Action by William P. Jones against the Southern Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtComstock, J.
Action by appellee against appellant for personal injuries sustained while being carried as a passenger on appellant’s freight-train on the 4th day of January, 1902. The complaint is in two paragraphs. The first *334charges that while appellee was a passenger on one of appellant’s local freight-trains, going to the city of Hunting-burg, the appellant carelessly detached the train from the caboose, and ran the engine ahead, and stopped it on the main line, and then permitted the caboose to follow down a steep grade, without any brakes being set, until it collided with the rear of the train,…
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