Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Ry. Co. v. Durfree
This text of 69 Miss. 439 (Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Ry. Co. v. Durfree) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Mississippi Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant company should congratulate itself upon the very fortunate escape it has secured from a verdict for substantial punitive damages, which, on the facts, might well have been awarded by the jury:
Mr. Durfree was justified in momentarily expecting that [444]*444tbe servants of the company would remove the obstructing train- from across the highway, so that he might pursue Ms journey home; and it does not lie with the company to say that he should have yielded to its unlawful and arrogant conduct, and sought shelter against the inclemency of the weather.
The judgment is affirmed.
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