Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Locker's Administrators

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Franklin circuit court, rendered on a verdict for $10,000.00 damages for the death of John Locker, who was struck by defendant’s passenger train while driving a team of mules across a public crossing in the country.

The petition alleges negligence in the operation of the train; that the crossing was an unusually dangerous one and that the defendant was negligent in failing to provide additional safeguards for the protection of the public rendered necessary because of its unusually dangerous character.

The…