Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Walls
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie circuit court of Sharkey county. Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by Henry Walls against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from tlie circuit court of Sharkey county. Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by Henry Walls against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. This is an appeal from a judgment against appellant for two thousand and five hundred dollars damages, alleged to have been sustained by appellee as the result of a fall from a trestle on appellant’s road after having been wrongfully ejected from one of its passenger trains! On January 9,1913, appellee purchased from appellant’s agent a ticket from Duncan to Hardee, a station on appellant’s…
1DissentStevens, J.
I find myself nnahle to agree with the majority holding. My Brethern concede that a passenger “should inquire before embarking upon a train whether it will stop at a place to which he has purchased his ticket,” yet they say:
“The servants of a railroad company are not relieved of all duty in this connection toward a passenger who has mistakenly embarked upon a train not scheduled to- stop at the place to which he has purchased a ticket. They should inform him of that fact upon the discovery thereof.”
Appellee in his own testimony says that when he purchased the ticket “there wasn’t any…
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