Weightman v. Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway Co.

Citations

• 70 Miss. 563

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Sick passenger. Negligence. Damages.</p> <p>A declaration against a railroad company which alleges that plaintiff’s son, being taken seriously ill' while from home, was placed on a train of defendant as a passenger, with a ticket, in charge of the conductor, who, with full knowledge of his condition and of the necessity of his speedily reaching home, promised to take care of him, and to assist him from the train if necessary, but that he wholly neglected this; that the youth, while unconscious, was taken past his destination, and was put off in the night at a place where there were no accommodations, and where he remained without attention for forty hours, being finally sent home, and that, as the result of the neglect and exposure, he shortly after-wards died, states a good cause of action. Sevier v. Railroad Go., 61 Miss., 8, distinguished.</p>