Illinois Central R. R. v. Teams
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom the circuit court of Holmes county. Hon. W. F. Stevens, Judge. The facts are sufficiently stated in, or are clearly inferable from, the opinion of the court. We think this case is completely covered by the case of Louisville, eto., H. R. Go. v. Bigger, 66 Miss., 321, and the Bigger case is the only authority necessary for us to cite.
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Feom the circuit court of Holmes county. Hon. W. F. Stevens, Judge. The facts are sufficiently stated in, or are clearly inferable from, the opinion of the court. We think this case is completely covered by the case of Louisville, eto., H. R. Go. v. Bigger, 66 Miss., 321, and the Bigger case is the only authority necessary for us to cite. It is on all fours with the ease at bar, and covers it like a blanket, and we think, therefore, under the authority of the Bigger case, the court should have given the peremptory instruction asked for the railroad company in the case at bar. Where the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
As to one of the mules for which a recovery was had, there is an utter absence of any evidence that it received any injury on the train while being transported from St. Louis to Lexington. When unloaded from the car on its arrival at Lexington, nothing was noticed which indicated any injury to the animal. The next morning the mule was seen to be suffering, and died two or three days afterward. But, if it be conceded that the evidence warranted the jury in finding that this mule was injured on the train, as was the case with the other mule, which was' sorely disabled when taken from the car,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- L., N. O. & T. Ry. Co. v. BiggerMississippi Supreme Court · 1889
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