Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-02
.TRESPASSER ON
 RAILWAY TAKES
 RISK OF INJURY
Supreme Court Reverses Decision Giving Judgment
 Against Railroad.

Against Railroad. 1 Little Rock, Jan. 31.-The Prescott ' X Northwestern Railway company, q 1 logging concern in Nevada and Pike
 counties. is $S.OO0 richer by su-
 pr;me court decision Monday. 4
 judgment for sS,000 was granted Ec i Hopkins, acting fer the widow and
 children of w. E. Sanders. by the
 Pike circui. court, against the rail-
 road Sanders was fatally injured
 while riding on. logging train be- | longing to the company. The supreme
 court found that Sanders was, tres passer while on the train, and
 damages could not be collected. from
 the road. The supreme court reversed 1 the decision and dismissed Fhe suit. Tn suit of the state against C. J.
 Linccln Drug ccIpanys brought to determine whether wholesale drug
 companies can keep and sell raw
 alcohol for medicinal purposes with cut violating the sta ewide prohibi- ticn law was submitted to the su- pre1e court Monday morning. An early decision is expected.
 Suits acted on by lower courts
 prior to June II, 1915, do no, come
 under provisions Of former law al- l lowing one years time for perfect 1 ing appeals tc the, sureme court and
 will not be reviewed by the higher
 court, it was declared in ruling
 1and:d down by the supre me court 1 Monday morning. No suit will be g, anted an appeal which was acted
 on by he lower court more than six
 months previously.
 The last legislature passed an act reducing the time allowing the filing
 O: appeals to the supreme court from
 enc year to six months. The act
 contained no emergency clause and was not operative until June Il, 1915. On January 27 suit of J.. w. Steph-
 ems. against Maud Williams, from the Mississippi chancery court, was sent to the supreme court clerks office to be filed w. P. Sadler. chief clerk, re fused to file the case, and an crder to compel him to file .rhe in- strument was asked. The court re- fused to grant the order and handed
 down it's ruling on time limits for fling of appeals. 7,
 Decision Rendered. The following opinions were deliy- 5red and proceedings lad in the SUI prema court today:
 By Chief Justice AfcCulloch: .Min,,o l.. Scott vs. Ed Cleveland, fem Clay circuit court; reversed and Iremanded: Bank of Cornig vs. Joseph Nim- rich. from Clay circuit court; re- versed and judgment here for appel lant,
 E J. c. Harry vs. w. T. Williams, Ifror Sebastian circuit court; af- ! flrmed.
 By Justice Wood:
 National Union Fire Insurance Co, vs. School district Mo-, .55. from Clay circuit court; reversed and dismiss ed. ,ts City. cf Ell Dorado vs. Union coun- lty. from Union circuit court; affirm cd: Justice Kirby dissents. :. State vs. Greenyille, stone and Gravel Co.,, from Chicot' chancery
 court; appeals dismissed Justices
 Hart and Kirby concur in the judg- ment. ,.. ,,. By Justice Hart: o. T. Streudle vs. L. B. LeRoy, from Crittenden chancery court; af7 firmed. R.L. Lindsey vs. I. S. !Ritchey, from !shary circuit, court; affirmed. Spence & Dudley vs. Clay county, from Clay circuit court; reversed and remanded; Justice Kirby dissents. By Justice Kirby. Geiser Manufacturing Cows. R. C.
 Davis, from Carroll circuit court; re- versed and remanded. . {, w. J. Myers vs. B. c. Hines, from
 Boone, chancery court; reversed and
 reManded. AL
 John A. Riggs vs. Earle Jones, from Garland circuit court; affirm 1 ed. D. M. Montague vs. Marvin H. Rob- inson, from Mississippi circuit court; reversed and remanded. By Justice Smith:
 Prescott and Northwestern Rall- way Co. vs. Ed Hopkins. from Pike
 circuit court; pversed and dis
 missed.
 D. w. Reynolds vs. Allen-West Comnis Co.,, from Randolph cLancery court: affirmed. IA. Fort Smith and Western Railroad Co. vs. L. J. Pence. from Sebastian circuit court: affirmed. H' .1' Ralph C.. Moore Vs. Paving Im- provement District No. 220 of Tex arkana, from Miller chancery court;
 affirmed.' sA