Georgia Pacific Ry. Co. v. Robinson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Carroll county. HoN. C. H. Campbell, Judge. On December 29th, 1889, appellee, a negro laborer, in company with several others ,went to Malmaison, a'flag-station on defendant’s railroad, where there were no passenger accommodations, but where trains usually stopped.
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Prom the circuit court of Carroll county. HoN. C. H. Campbell, Judge. On December 29th, 1889, appellee, a negro laborer, in company with several others ,went to Malmaison, a'flag-station on defendant’s railroad, where there were no passenger accommodations, but where trains usually stopped. Appellee purposed to take passage on the passenger train which was due at Malmaison at 6 o’clock P. M. The evening was dark and rainy, and as the train was often behind time, appellee, instead of waiting at the station, walked down the track about half a mile, to the house of a friend, who lived near a…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
The evidence of the plaintiff fails to establish that the “ section house” was either a depot or a place at which the appellant was accustomed to receive or discharge passengers, or at which any invitation had been given to the plaintiff or any one else to take passage on its trains.
The plaintiff’s case must therefore stand upon the facts disclosed of an unlawful flagging of the train by him on a dark and rainy night at a point on the road at which the servants of the company had no reason to expect a passenger, the stopping of the train because of the signals given by the plaintiff, his…
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