Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway Co. v. Barker

ENGLISH, C. J. :

This action was commenced in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, on August 14, 1875, by Emma O. Ammon against the-Little Rock & Fort Smith Railway Company.

The complaint alleges, in substance, that on April 26, 1875,.. while the plaintiff’s son, Alpheus D. Ammon, a child five years old, without discretion, and without any knowledge or-negligence of the plaintiff, was playing on or near the track of' the defendant corporation, in the town of Argenta, etc., the defendant, by its agents and servants, carelessly and negligently caused one of its locomotives, with a train of cars…