Illinois Cent. R. v. Atkinson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Capiah county. HoN. J. B. Holden, Judge. Suit by W. M. Atkinson & McDonald Company against the Illinois Central Eailroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The peremptory instruction requested by the defendant at the close of the testimony should have been given, and in refusing to grant it, the court erred.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Capiah county. HoN. J. B. Holden, Judge. Suit by W. M. Atkinson & McDonald Company against the Illinois Central Eailroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The peremptory instruction requested by the defendant at the close of the testimony should have been given, and in refusing to grant it, the court erred. R. R. Go. v. Bigger, 66 Miss. 319; R. R. Co. v. Teams, 75 Miss. 147; I. G. R. R. Go. v. Peel, 70 So. 887; T. & M. V. R. R. Go. y. Bell, 71 So. 272. There are numerous other…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
The appellee sued the appellant in the circuit court of Copiah county for injuries to cattle shipped by the ap-pellee over the road of appellant. The cattle were loaded into the cars by the plaintiff at Wesson, Miss., and were carried by one engineer from-Wesson to McComb, Miss., and by another to Harrahan, La., where the car containing the cattle was placed upon a side track about eleven thirty at night, and switched to the stockyards at New Orleans by another engineer of the appellant. When the cattle were unloaded, one was dead in the car and another injured. -The injured one was taken in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Yazoo & M. V. R. R. v. BellMississippi Supreme Court · 1916
3Cited by2 opinions
- Illinois Cent. R. Co., Inc. v. PaxtonMississippi Supreme Court · 1940
- Bernstein v. Yazoo & M. V. R. R.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1917