Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Sharkey county. I-Ion. George Anderson, Judge. Williams, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The error in the third instruction is this: It is couched in the alternative.
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From the circuit court of Sharkey county. I-Ion. George Anderson, Judge. Williams, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The error in the third instruction is this: It is couched in the alternative. It says, in effect, that the plaintiff is entitled to recover if the jury believe from the evidence either that the plaintiff, while pursuing his journey, was set upon by the conductor and insulted…
1Opinion of the CourtTruly, J.
The facts of this case as presented by the story of appellee are as follows: Appellee, having purchased a trip ticket over appellant’s line, from Redwood to Vicksburg and return, boarded the train at the first-named place. Shortly after the train started, the conductor took up the going portion of the *350ticket, returning- tbe other part to appellee, and giving him a conductor’s slip, indicating the point at which the passenger was to disembark. Subsequently, but in a very short while, the appellee, in passing from one portion of the train into another, was again accosted by the conductor, who…
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