Crawley v. Richmond & Danville Railroad

Citations

• 70 Miss. 340

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Excessive speed. Injury. Contributory negligence.</p> <p>Although a railroad company is per se guilty of negligence, and also violates the law in running its train within an incorporated town more than six miles an hour, recovery cannot be had of it for the death of one whose contributory negligence, in recklessly exposing himself before the train while so running, was unmistakably the efficient cause of his being struck by the engine and killed.</p>