St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Richardson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Nevada Circuit Court; Jacob M. Carter, Judge; statement by the court. On the 6th day of November, 1906, plaintiff, a colored woman about 22 years old, took passage on defendant’s local freight train at Gurdon to go to her home at Prescott. Beirne was a small station between these two places. The train stopped at Beirne, and plaintiff heard one of the train crew say to another that they would stop there about 30 minutes for the trainmen to get dinner.
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Appeal from Nevada Circuit Court; Jacob M. Carter, Judge; statement by the court. On the 6th day of November, 1906, plaintiff, a colored woman about 22 years old, took passage on defendant’s local freight train at Gurdon to go to her home at Prescott. Beirne was a small station between these two places. The train stopped at Beirne, and plaintiff heard one of the train crew say to another that they would stop there about 30 minutes for the trainmen to get dinner. Plaintiff remained in the caboose 10 or 15 minutes after the train stopped, and then walked out upon the back platform. Plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts.) There are three propositions presented for our consideration.
'First. Was the appellee injured by a jerk or jar of great, unusual and unnecessary violence?
A drummer named Hawley and plaintiff were the only persons in the car at the time the injury was received by the plaintiff. Hawley testified that he was in the habit of riding on local freights, and that it was the heaviest jolt he ever got on a car. That it jarred the papers and a pencil off of the desk on to the floor and threw him against the wall. That he saw plaintiff fall, and that she scrambled…
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