Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. v. Marcum

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Nunn—

Reversing.

This appeal is from a judgment of the Lawrence circuit court for the sum of $983 damages, resulting from an injury received by appellee on account of the derailment of a hand cár belonging to appellant. The hand car was in charge of one Blankinship, appellant's foreman or section boss. On April 7, 1907, appellee, together with a number of others, went to a station by the name of Fullers, Lawrence county, Ky., near which there was a large slip on the railroad right of way. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon appellant’s superintendent, Hiughes,…