Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Hawkins

Mississippi Supreme Court
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Hawkins, 82 Miss. 209 (Miss. 1903)
Oalhoon

Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Hawkins

Opinion of the Court

Oalhoon, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

If the engineer was on the lookout, as he says he was, in, coming around a curve debouching into a cut, he must' have seen the men and dogs. The jury manifestly thought either that he did see them, or should have seen them by proper lookout, in entering so dangerous a piece of road. There is no pretense that he was engaged about his engine. One toot of his whistle would, in all probability, have prevented the damage. From the evidence the jury must have thought he did see, and, in that case, the carelessness was “so gross as to be tantamount to design.” Mobile, etc., R. R. v. Holliday, 79 Miss., 297; 30 South., 820, does not apply to the facts here.

Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad Company v. Calvin S. D. Hawkins
Cited By
6 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Railroads. Dog seen on t/raek. Duty of engineer. Ca/relessness. WilfuVness. If the engineer of a railroad train saw, or should have seen, a bloodhound trailing along the track a short distance in advance of the train, and having time to do so, does not give warning or do anything to prevent his engine from striking th'e animal and thereby causes it to he run over and killed by the train, his carelessness amounts to design and the railroad company will he liable to the owner for the value of the' dog.