Southern Ry. Co. v. Shaw

McCORMICK, Circuit Judge.

Dennis Shaw, by his next friend, Mary Doyle, the defendant in error, brought his action against the Southern Railway Company, the plaintiff in error, to recover damages for personal injuries inflicted on him by a moving train of railroad cars which was being operated by the plaintiff in error, stating his case, so far as we deem it necessary to quote from his petition, thus:

“That on or about the 20th day of August, 1895, your petitioner, who was a minor of only ten years of age, and whose mother and father were both dead, lived with a colored man in the city of Macon,…