Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Smith
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie circuit court of Quitman county. Hon. W. A. Alcorn,' Judge. Suit by Tiny Bell Smith, by next friend against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Cook, P. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court. .
This suit was brought by the appellee, a little girl hardly two years of age, by her next friend and father, in the court below for fourteen thousand dollars damages on account of having her right hand crushed by one of defendant’s trains on August 1, 1913, resulting in the loss of all of the hand except the thumb, and in the declaration filed for her it is alleged that the accident was caused by the negligence of appellant’s employees in the handling of the train which caused the injury. To appellee’s declaration appellant pleaded the general…
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