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· 10/15/1919

Hines v. McGhee

Citations

  • 121 Miss. 57
  • 83 So. 402

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Failure to sound stoclc alarm when not proximate cause of injury.</p> <p>In a suit against a railroad company for the killing of stock, even though the engineer did not sound the stock alarm before the stock were struck, the company was not liable, where the evidence did not warrant a finding by the jury that the stock would have been frightened from the track by an earlier sounding of the stock alarm.</p>

Judges: Smith

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