Combs v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad

Citations

• 92 Miss. 532
• 46 So. 168

Syllabus

<p>1. Railroads. Person hilled on track. Evidence. Experts.</p> <p>In an action against a railroad company for the alleged wrongful dea'th of a decedent killed by a locomotive striking him, the tes- ‘ timony of an experienced railroad man, who had made observations of the locality from the cab of an engine, that the obstructions to a clear view of the track at the point where decedent was killed were not such as to have prevented the engineer in charge of the locomotive from seeing the decedent on the track, is admissible.</p> <p>2. Same. Licenser and licensee of track. Injuries inflicted on employe of other.</p> <p>Where one railroad company licensed another to run trains over its tracks, an employe of the licensee, killed on the track by a train of the licenser, was not the latter’s employe.</p>