Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. Carpenter
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Prentiss county. Hon. J. H. Mitchell, Judge. Suit hy Joseph H. Carpenter against the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff for two thousand dollars for injuries received by him while in the employ of the defendant railroad company. The opinion states the facts.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Prentiss county. Hon. J. H. Mitchell, Judge. Suit hy Joseph H. Carpenter against the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff for two thousand dollars for injuries received by him while in the employ of the defendant railroad company. The opinion states the facts. In the concluding argument of counsel for plaintiff he used the following language, to which exceptions were at the-time taken: “If a statement was made by a railroad man as to how and where an injury…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
Appellee was engaged in loading logs on a flat car standing on a switch track of appellant company at Rienzi. There was a loading apparatus beside the car. A freight train backed in on the track where the flat car was standing, for the purpose of coupling to a loaded car standing from fifteen to forty feet from the flat car. It struck the loaded car with some force, failed to make *720the coupling, drove that car down the track, and struck the flat car, where appellee and those engaged- in loading it were, with such force as to move it some distance, and to cause the falling of the apparatus,…
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