Bell v. Southern Railway Co.
Bell v. Southern Railway Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiff’s testimony in this case tended to show, not that he boarded the train while it was in motion, but that he got upon
This being tbe case as made by tbe plaintiff’s testimony, it was error for tbe court to give a peremptory instruction for tbedefendant railroad company. Tbis is not tbe case of a passenger boarding a moving train; and it is settled law that it is negligence for a railroad company to permit a truck to stand so-near tbe track as to strike passengers wbo are in tbe act of taking passage on tbe train. Wooten v. Mobile, etc., R. Co., 79 Miss. 26, 29 South. 61.
It is hardly necessary to add that conflicts in tbe testimony are for tbe jury, not for tbe court.
Reversed and remanded,
Reference
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- Arthur Bell v. Southern Railway Company
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- Railroads. Passengers. Riding on platform. Truck left near track. Where a passenger is without fault in being upon the lower step of a railway coach he may recover from the company for injuries received by being carried in contact with a truck, negligently left too close to the track.