Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Wallace

From the circuit court of Yazoo county. Hon. David M. Miller, Judge. Wallace, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. From a j’udgment in plaintiff’s favor, defendant appealed to the supreme court. The plaintiff, Wallace, while in the discharge of his duty as a brakeman of the defendant railroad company, was riding upon the pilot of a gravel train, the engine of which, in the temporary absence of the engineer, was being operated by the fireman.' The engine and train were approaching a railroad crossing which had been recently repaired,…