Hill v. Jackson Light & Traction Co.

Citations

• 110 Miss. 388
• 70 So. 401

Syllabus

<p>1. Carriers. Injury to passengers. Directing verdict. Evidence. Injury to others. Manner of injury. Opinions. Electricity.</p> <p>Where, under the evidence, it was a question for the jury as to whether plaintiff, a passenger, received a shock on the burning off of the last of four wires carrying the current in a street car of defendant, the other three wires having previously broken, and where it was impossible to say as a matter of law that no inference of negligence was to be drawn from the absence of inspection of such wires for several months before the accident, it was error to give a peremptory instruction for the defendant, since under Laws 1912, chapter 215, the receiving of an injury from the running of a car was prima faice evidence of negligence on the part of the carrier.</p> <p>2. Carriers. Passengers. Evidence. Injury to others.</p> <p>Evidence of other shocks received by other passengers on other occasions while riding in the car in which plaintiff was a passenger at the time of her injury were admissible.</p> <p>3. Evidence. Opinions. Manner of injury. Electricity.</p> <p>Evidence of a witness as to how and in what-way a passenger on the car on which plaintiff was riding when injured might receive a severe shock, should not be excluded.</p>