Mississippi Supreme Court, 1900

Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Rooks

Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Rooks
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided October 15, 1900 · Calhoon
78 Miss. 91

Alabama & Vicksburg Railway Co. v. Rooks

Opinion of the Court

Calhoon, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court. .

We cannot hold that the damage in this case can be referred to the act of the railway company as the proximate cause. Meyer v. King, 72 Miss., 1; Robinson v. Gage, 27 So. Rep., 998; Illinois, etc., R. R. Co. v. Woolley, 77 Miss., 927.

Reversed.

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