Anderson v. Alabama & Vicksburg Railroad

Citations

• 81 Miss. 587

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Obstructing Mghivay. Code 1892. § 3551.</p> <p>A plaintiff, to recover damages of a railroad- company, because of the obstruction of travel by a train standing across a highway, under Code 1892, § 3551, making it the duty of a railroad company upon stopping any train where its track crosses a highway to so uncouple its cars as not to obstruct travel on the highway for a longer period than five minutes, must show :</p> <p>(a) That the road obstructed was a highway, a public road;</p> <p>(b) That plaintiff -himself was detained by the train for more than five minutes; and,</p> <p>(e) To recover damages to health, that the detention caused the ill health of which complaint is made.</p>