Illinois Cent. R. v. Reed

Citations

• 113 Miss. 545
• 74 So. 423

Syllabus

<p>1. Bailkoads. Operation. Equipment. Headlights. Statute.</p> <p>Section 1, chapter 153, Laws 1912, requiring electric headlights on all locomotives running on the main- line of railroads is mandatory and is a reasonable police regulation.</p> <p>2. Railroads. Operation. Negligence. Evidence. Statute.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, section 1985, making proof of injury by a locomotive prima facie evidence of want of reasonable care and shill, where a railroad failed to comply with Laws 1912, chapter 153, section 1, requiring electric headlights on engines run on main lines, and on a misty night struck and killed a horse there was a prima facie case of negligence and in such case where the railroad did not dispute the violation of the headlight statute and did not attempt to show that the animal would have been killed any way, even if the locomotive had been equipped with an electric light, this did not meet the prima facie case against it under the statute.</p>