Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. This action was brought to recover damages for an injury received by I-Ceeve Jones, a minor, on the 10th day of September, 1898. The accident occurred in Eulton, Ky., where the tracks of the plaintiff in error, cross State Line street. This highway' is the dividing line between Kentucky and Tennessee, that part of the city south of this line being known as “South Eulton.”
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. This action was brought to recover damages for an injury received by I-Ceeve Jones, a minor, on the 10th day of September, 1898. The accident occurred in Eulton, Ky., where the tracks of the plaintiff in error, cross State Line street. This highway' is the dividing line between Kentucky and Tennessee, that part of the city south of this line being known as “South Eulton.” The minor is a colored boy, and at the time of the accident was 10 years and 5 months old. He was at the time in a wagon with a…
1Opinion of the CourtClabk, District Judge
The denial, by the court, of the motion made by the defendant at the close of the whole of the evidence, to direct a verdict in its favor, and the refusal to give certain special instructions requested, art; assigned for error, and const!kite the grounds relied on for reversal in tins court. In view of all the conditions of the entire situation at ihe time and place of the accident, with a conflict in the evidence over the material facts, the question of the defendant’s negligence was obviously one for the jury. Reference to some of the leading cases is sufficient without a review in detail.…
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