Smith v. Illinois Central R. Co.

The appellant, Fred Douglas Smith, a minor of the age of seven years, plaintiff in the court below, sued the appellee, Illinois Central Railroad Company, defendant, in the Circuit Court of the First Judicial District of Hinds County, in an action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained when the car wheels of one of the defendant’s railroad trains ran over the plaintiff ’s right foot as the train was proceeding northwardly along the defendant’s railroad track near the Jackson Fertilizer plant, in the City of Jackson, on February 23, 1951. The case was tried before a…