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· 3/15/1909

Johnson v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad

Citations

  • 94 Miss. 447
  • 47 So. 785

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Passengers. Negligence. Contributory negligence. Riding on vestibuled platform.</p> <p>A passenger, injured by the negligence of the railroad- company, was not as a matter of law guilty of such contributory negligence as will defeat his recovery merely because he was riding at the time of the injury on a vestibuled platform of a moving passenger train.</p>

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