Young v. Southern Railway Co.

Citations

• 97 Miss. 483
• 52 So. 19

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Injuries to person on track. Employes’ houses. Fronting tracks. Children playing. Knowledge of company.</p> <p>Where a railroad company, for occupancy hy its employes and their families, maintained dwelling houses fronting, near to, and having the usual way of ingress to and egress from them over its tracks, and the children of its employes, residing in the houses, were within the knowledge of the company, accustomed to play on the 'tracks, they were whilé so playing more than mere _ licensees, and the company is liable for the death of one of them caused by mere negligence in the operation of its train.</p>