Miss. & Tenn. R. R. v. Harrison

Citations

• 66 Miss. 419

Syllabus

<p>Baiiroads. Negligence. Injun/ to passenger ; unauthorized act of stranger.</p> <p>Where a train, moves off from a station, without stopping long enough for passengers to alight,'a passenger who is injured while alighting, by the motion of the train causing her to fall, cannot recover for such injury, if she knew before endeavoring to alight that the premature movement of the train was caused by the unauthorized act of a fellow-passenger, in pulling the bell-cord and signaling the engineer to start.</p>