Consolidation Coal Co. v. Castle

PER CURTAM.

Ballard Castle, an employee of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, recovered a judgment against the appellant, Consolidation Coal Company, on the verdict of a jury, for $10,000 for personal injuries.

While engaged in cleaning switches in the loading yard, which served a new coal tipple of appellant at one of its mines in Kentucky, Castle was run over by a loaded car set in motion by Mullins, a car dropper in the employ of the coal company. The railway company had no control over the cars from the time they were spotted at the upper end of the yard until they were backed up at…