Sledge v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad

Citations

• 87 Miss. 566
• 40 So. 13

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Passenger depots. Code 1892, g 3549. Contributory negligence. Willfulness. Recklessness.</p> <p>Code 1892, g 3549, providing that mere contributory negligence shall not be a defense to an action .against a railroad company for an injury inflicted by the backing of a train along and within fifty feet of a passenger depot at a greater rate of speed than three miles per hour, or at a lesser speed, without the train being preceded by a servant on foot to give warning, is not available to one whose injuries are attributable to his own voluntary, deliberate, willful, or reckless exposure of himself.</p>