Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham Railroad v. Fite

Citations

• 67 Miss. 373

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Failure to stop at flag station. Nominal damages.</p> <p>In the absence of malice, insult, ov wilful wrong, when a passenger train has failed to stop at a flag station, where passengers get on and off, and a passenger for such station jumps off and walks back about two hundred yards, and there is no proof of actual damages, only nominal damages can be recovered from the railroad company: exemplary damages are not recoverable.</p>