Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Sandford

Elliott, C. J. —

The appellee alleges in her complaint that Charles W. Sandford, her intestate, was in the appellant’s service in the capacity of a baggage-master; that, on the line of the appellant’s railroad, and forming part of its road, was a bridge across a stream; that, on the 24th day of December, 1883, and for a long time prior to that day, the appellant had negligently permitted the bridge to become unsafe; that the piers were weak and not capable of resisting the force of floods to which the stream was subject; that, on the 24th day of December, 1883, while the plaintiff’s intestate…