Brown v. Southern R. R. Co.

Citations

• 103 Miss. 315
• 60 So. 326

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Crossings. Signals. Speed. Negligence.</p> <p>In a suit against a railroad for killing a person at a public crossing in an incorporated town, where it was in evidence that the train which killed the person was running, at more than six miles an hour and neither blew the whistle of the engine nor rung the bell; whether the railroad’s negligence was the proximate cause of the injury was a question for the jury and a peremptory instruction for the defendant was reversible error.</p>