Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-04-13
RAILROAD WINS
 IN HIGH COURT Two Personal Damage Suit Judgments Are Reversed
 by Supreme Court.
SLEEPING ON TRACKS
High Court Holds That One Makes Bed of Railroad Track at own Peril, and That Ex.Brakeman
 Cannot Deadhead.

1 lA9 dhu ulolllloolISo lWO holIldSoC ouAto against railroads this morning, in which the plaintiffs had obtained judgments in the lower courts.
 The Rock Island appealed the judg- ment in which J. l.. Watkins of Little Rock, who was employed a short time as a brakeman, got $50 for being ejected from a train. Watkins want to Brlnkley ll July last year auu worked between 1nsre alrd Memphis for short time as brakeman. :! When he was released he telegraphed for pass to Little Rock. Before he heard from it he boarded train, ex- plained circumstances to the auditor but was put off when he refusad to pay fare. He bought a tlcket at Hagen from there to Little Rock and tried to board the same train but was not permitted to do so when he de- clined to pay fare from Brinkley to Hagen. He later brought the suit for damages in the Prairie circuit court, where he got judgment for $50. The court held that the train employe was justified iA preventing him from rid ing on the same train to Little Rock when he refused to pay the fare from Brinkley to Hagen.
 Track No Place to Sleep.
 Robert Spillers' judgment for $-,- 900 for injuries suffered when he was struck by an Iron Mountain train while asleep on the right -of-Way,S likewise was reversed and dismissed. Spilers was going from Louisiana to Dexter and stopped to rest on a cat tie guard. He went to sleep and a train struck him. He got $50 for hospital and medical expenses from a claim agent and brought suit for damages, which he won in the Gran. county circuit court. The supreme court held that there was no testi- mony to sustain the verdict, which was in effect that the company had been negligent in not sounding a warning on approaching the crosslg and that the engineer was not on the i lookout. sts .t.se,, i Lee Drifoos of Jonesboro Will nave i to pay fines in 10 separate indict- ments charging him with running 1 "blind tiger" at Jonesboro in Aug ust, last year, instead of one fine for T all ten indictments. He was found guilty on the ten charges which, how ever, were consolidated with his con- sent for trial. The verdicts were re- turned separately in each case ana he appealed The supreme court held that the consolidation 'of the i cases was with Drifoos' consent and :, for his advantage and the lower courts verdict was sustained.
 Oral arguments were made and 1 the case submitted in Representative 1 Jo Johnson's mandamus acton I against State officials to prevent pay 1 ing of special legislative investlgat- ing committees this morning. The appeal was taken by Auditor M. F. Dickinson and others who were en- joined by order of the Pulaski chan 1 cery court from paying the commit tee members, witnesses and others on the ground that the legislature was without authority to vest the com | mittees with power to conduct it's probe for a longer period than pro vided by the constitution.
 Fourteen opinions were handed I down by the supreme court tnls morning, as follows:
 Cases Decided. By Chief Justice McCulloch: I George Davis vs. Della Jadgett, from White circuit court; affirmed. c. w. Swearingen vs. c. w. Bulger I & Son, from Garland circuit court; T reversed and remanded.
 Pine Bluff, sheridan & Southern i Railway Go. vs. Meeks LeatherWood, from Grant circuit court; affirmed. Celiet Hughes vs. Sebastian Coun- ty Bank from Sebastian chancery court; affirmed.
 By Justice Wood:
 H. NJ. Hubbard vs. w. B. McMa- ! han. from Mississippi chancery court; affirmed; Chief Justice Me Culloch and Justice Kirby dissent. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & south ern Railway Co. vs. Prince spillers, from Grant circuit court; reversed and dismissed.
 By Justice Hart:
 Graysonia-Nashville Lumber co. , vs. Saline Development CO.,, from Howard chancery court; affirmed. Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Go. vs. J l.. Watkins, from Prairie circuit court; reversed and dismissed.
 Lee Drifoos vs state, appealed d from Craighead circuit court; al firmed.
 By Justice Kirby:
 G. G. Dent vs. Peoples Bank of lm- bcden from Lawrence circuit co1t; affirmed.
 Mike Pope vs. The Building Com Z mittee of the Presbyterian church } from Howard circuit court; affirm i ed.
 \ St. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern Railway co. vs. R. E. Allen |. from Hot Springs circuit court; af- . firmed.
 By Justice Smith:
 Bowser Furniture Co.,. vs. Dick , Johnson. from Faulkner circuit court affirmed
 } R. l.. Baker vs. Lucia Hudson, . from Clay circuit court; reversed and ! remanded.