Alabama & V. Ry. Co. v. White
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. HoN. Ii. C. Mo'UNgeR, Judge. Suit by Mack White against the Alabama & Vicksburg Bailway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBeed, J.
Appellee recovered judgment against appellant for one thousand five hundred dollars as damages resulting from injury suffered by him in being scalded on his anide and leg by hot water from the “overflow pipe” under an engine. On the day he was injured appellee was fireman on an engine pulling a freight train from Vicksburg to Jackson and back. When the train reached Clinton on the return trip, a hot box was discovered under the engine. *143Appellee was directed to remedy the trouble. When be started under tbe engine, be found tbat water was trickling from tbe “blowback pipé,” or “ash pan blower…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Wabash Railway Co. v. McDanielsSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Hope v. Natchez, Columbia & Mobile RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1910
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