G., M. N.R. Co. v. Willis

The appellee, Loverett Willis, was plaintiff in the court below, and filed a suit against the appellant for damages for a personal assault committed upon him by the trainmaster of said railroad company.

The case for the plaintiff was that he had been asked by one of the colored porters of the G., M. N. Railroad Company to assist some women in transferring their baggage from one train to another at Union, Mississippi, where the two trains met; that he carried the baggage from one train to another, and, as he was coming off of the train, the trainmaster ran up and kicked him and told him to stay…