Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Lowry
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county - Host. John L. Buckley, Judge. Suit by J. "W. Lowry against the Alabama & Vicksburg Bailway Company et al. Prom a judgment awarding actual and punitive damages the defendant appeals. The appellee took passage over the Illinois Central Bailroad at Grenada, Mississippi via Jackson, and over the appellant’s road, the Alabama & Vicksburg Bailway,, to Meridian.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county - Host. John L. Buckley, Judge. Suit by J. "W. Lowry against the Alabama & Vicksburg Bailway Company et al. Prom a judgment awarding actual and punitive damages the defendant appeals. The appellee took passage over the Illinois Central Bailroad at Grenada, Mississippi via Jackson, and over the appellant’s road, the Alabama & Vicksburg Bailway,, to Meridian. He took with him the body of his child, and purchased a full ticket at Grenada through to Meridian for the corpse. The agent at Grenada took up the ticket and gave him a check through to…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, C.
The testimony in this record falls far short of showing a cause of action warranting the imposition of punitive damages. Reversed and remanded.
Per Curiam. The above opinion is adopted as the opinion of the court, and for the reasons therein indicated the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
Suggestion of error filed and overruled.
2Cited by1 opinion
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