Miles v. American Railway Express Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from White Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. As to the disease of hydrophobia or rabies and its effects on the human body, and for a proper understanding of the reasons why the local physician advised the father to send the dog’s head by express to Little Rock for microscopical examination, see Ander’s Practice of Medicine. 13 Ed., p. 292; DaCosta’s Modern Surgery, 8 Ed., 351; DaCosta’s Handbook of Mod. Treat, vol. 1, p. 144; Encyc.
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Appeal from White Circuit Court; J. M. Jackson, Judge; 1. As to the disease of hydrophobia or rabies and its effects on the human body, and for a proper understanding of the reasons why the local physician advised the father to send the dog’s head by express to Little Rock for microscopical examination, see Ander’s Practice of Medicine. 13 Ed., p. 292; DaCosta’s Modern Surgery, 8 Ed., 351; DaCosta’s Handbook of Mod. Treat, vol. 1, p. 144; Encyc. Britannica, 11 Ed. vol. 14, p. 167; Roseneau on Preventive Med. & Hyg. (1918) pp. 45-53. We find no parallel case to this in the reports, but, as…
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining a demurrer to and dismissing the complaint for damages for an alleged breach of contract.
On January 31, 1921, E. W. Miles filed an amended complaint against the American Railway Express Company which is as follows: “The plaintiff alleges:
“That defendant is and was at all times hereinafter mentioned a common carrier engaged in the carriage of express matter for hire, over the line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, between the town of Bald Knob and the city of Little Rock, Arkansas.
“That on the 15th day of June, 1920, plaintiff, through his…
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