Thompson v. Illinois Central R.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Milleb,, Judge. Suit by Sallie Thompson against the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Prom a judgment sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s declaration she appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We respectfully submit that nothing is necessary to secure a reversal of this judgment, except to fully apprehend the facts.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. D. M. Milleb,, Judge. Suit by Sallie Thompson against the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Prom a judgment sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s declaration she appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. We respectfully submit that nothing is necessary to secure a reversal of this judgment, except to fully apprehend the facts. What might become of the case, as it develops, by showing the facts in a trial before a jury, we are not now concerned with. What we press home on the court now, is that no demurrer such as this,…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
Appellant in her declaration states, in June, 1911, the appellee railroad company constructed a dam, which formed a pond or lake of water, covering something like one hundred acres of land, in the woods adjoining its main line, in the northern suburbs of the city of Me-Comb, and a half mile from the residence portion of the city; that there had been a branch or ditch running through the land covered by the lake, and that defendant caused deep and dangerous holes to be left in the said branch by the backing up of the water in the branch or ditch bed; that the lake so formed was uninclosed, and…
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