Legal Opinion
Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Rucker
Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)
Decided November 25, 1932PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Perry
Reversing.
On the trial of this action in the court below, the appellee, Bonar Rucker, an infant, suing by his next friend, Cecil Rucker, recovered of the appellant the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, a verdict and judgment for' $5,000'for damages resulting from injuries to his person, alleged caused by the gross negligence of appellant and its servants superior in authority to him.
Appellant was refused a new trial and, complaining of such ruling and judgment, has prosecuted this appeal, assigning for grounds of reversal that:
1. Rucker was not engaged in…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Swift & Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- New York Central Railroad Company v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Shanks v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Illinois Central Railroad v. BehrensSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Gray v. KurnSupreme Court of Missouri · 1940
- Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co. v. McReynoldsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1969
- Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. MilesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1952
- Clevinger v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1937
- Louisville & N. R. Co. v. BrittainCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1937
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