St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Ingram
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; R. E. , Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. William Ingram sued the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained ¡by him while helping to load some 'bridge timbers on a flat car.
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Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; R. E. , Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. William Ingram sued the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company to recover damages for personal injuries sustained ¡by him while helping to load some 'bridge timbers on a flat car. The facts ¡are as follows: In February, 1914, E. T. Ross, a (bridge foreman of the defendant company, with the plaintiff and others of his bridge crew, were engaged in removing some old guard rails from two bridges or trestles on defendant’s line of road. The guard rails were made of 6x8 pine timbers, nine feet long,…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts). It is insisted by counsel for the defendant that the action should have been abated because there was another suit pending to recover damages for the same injury in the Jackson Circuit Court. The facts upon' which this assignment of error is based are as follows:
The plaintiff first instituted an action in the Jackson Circuit Court to recover damages for the injury which is the foundation of the present action. The trial of the case was begun on September 23, 1914, and after a portion of plaintiff’s testimony had been introduced, by agreement of the parties…
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