48 So. 618 | Miss. | 1909
delivered the opinion of the court.
The pivotal point in this case is whether the company was negligent in the construction of its platform, so as to have the bumper of the engine and the body of the cars themselves project over — that is to say, overlap — said platform, to the extent, at least, of two inches as the cars would go by said platform. There was testimony to the effect that this platform was so negligently constructed that the cars, in going by, would oscillate so as to overlap to the extent of two inches, at least, said platform. The query, therefore, is whether this negligent construction is the proximate cause of this injury, and we think, on the testimony in the record, there was sufficient evidence to send the case to the jury to decide that question of fact.
In the case of Archer v. N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co., 106 N. Y. 589, 13 N. E. 318, it was held in a case like this that the the passenger has the right to act upon the “assumption that every necessary and reasonable precaution would be taken to make the platform safe, that he had a right to regard the platform as a safe and proper place, and that to bring, without notice, a train at such a speed up to a station and into the neighborhood of outgoing and incoming passengers, and so near a platform provided for them as to sweep a portion of it, was negligence.” In the case of Langan v. St. Louis, etc., R. R. Co., 72 Mo. 392, 3 Am. & Eng. R. R. Cases, at page 359 et seq. the
We think this is the correct view, that the peremptory charge was erroneous, and the judgment is reversed, and the case remanded.