Louisville N. R. Co. v. Bush's Adm'x

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Just after dark on the evening of December 7, 1938, James Busk was killed in the northern outskirts of the corporate limits of the town of Cumberland, in Harlan County, while walking on the track of appellant and defendant below, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company — his death being produced by collision with a freight train composed of the engine, tender and about forty coal cars. It occurred at a point some one hundred yards north of a grade crossing known in the record as “Green Cornett” crossing — the name being derived from the fact that…