Illinois Central Railroad v. Messina
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. ’ The facts, which involve the construction and application of the Anti-pass. provision of the Hepburn Act of 1906, are stated in the opinion..
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is an action for personal injuries suffered by the defendant in error while upon a train running from Mississippi to Tennessee. He had paid' no fare but was upon the tender, as he said, by permission of the engineer. The engineer had noticed that the water was high between Beatty and Sawyer and oyer the track at Sawyer. After passing Beatty the train was going at a rate variously put as thirty-five to fifty or sixty miles an hour when it ran into the water and was thrown from the track. The plaintiff was caught between the tender and a car and badly hurt.
The plaintiff got a judgment for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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