Gulf & Chicago Railroad v. Sneed

Citations

• 84 Miss. 252

Syllabus

<p>1. Railroads. Highway crossing. Code 1892, | 3555. Grades.</p> <p>Under Code 1892, § 3555, requiring a railroad company, where its track crosses a highway, to make a convenient crossing and keép it in good order, the grade in the highway required depends upon the extent to which the railroad track is above or below the natural surface of the ground.</p> <p>2. Same. Injv/ries to traveler.</p> <p>Under said section a railroad company is not liable for an injury to a traveler resulting from a defect in the highway beyond the crossing, although the highway where defective be on its right of way.</p> <p>3. Same. Proximate and remote cause.</p> <p>.Where a horse becomes frightened at an object lying in the highway, and the driver, in undertaking to force the animal past the object, causes it to back the vehicle into a gully at the side of the highway, thereby injuring the occupants of the vehicle, the condition of the highway is not the proximate cause of the injury.</p>