Treadway's Administrator v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner — •

Affirming.

Appellant’s intestate, then 17 years of age, was in June, 1924, while attempting to pass between two freight cars standing on one of appellee’s tracks in its yards at Ravenna, caught between the bumpers of the two cars and killed, and his personal representative instituted this action for damages, alleging that his intestate’s death was caused by the negligence of the defendant and its agents and servants.

On a trial, and at tlie conclusion of all of the evidence, the court below directed a verdict for the defendant, which verdict was…