Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Jones' Administrator

Opinion of the -Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

On March 29,1924, Walter J. Jones, a fireman on one of the appellant’s trains which run from Frankfort to Ravenna, Kentucky, was killed when the engine he was firing ran off the tracks and turned over near Trumbo, a flag station a few miles south of Frankfort. At the time of his death, J ones was living in Ravenna in Estill county and had been living there for- a number of years. On May 20, 1924, the appellee, Tansel L. Jones, the brother of. the decedent, ' was appointed administrator of the Jones’ estate by the Estill county court, which…