Yazoo M.V.R. Co. v. Wade

The' appellant, railroad company, appeals from a substantial judgment in favor of the appellee, Mrs. Wade, on her suit for damages for personal injuries which she alleged she received as a. result of a violent or unusual jerk in the starting of the train which she had boarded at Raymond, Mississippi, as a passenger to Jackson, Mississippi.

It is unnecessary to detail the facts. It is sufficient' to say that the plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that she boarded the train at Raymond, and before she had occupied a seat the train started with a violent and unusual, jerk, whereby she was thrown…