Louisville & Interurban Railroad v. Murphy

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Eeversing.

On the morning of May 3, 1917, the appellee, Murphy, was a passenger on one of appellant’s cars going into Louisville. While running at a high rate of speed on a curve near Anchorage the car left the track and appellee received several injuries in the nature of cuts, bruises and minor fractures hereinafter considered.

*796This is an action by appellee ’for damages growing out of his injuries on that occasion, and upon a trial the jury returned a verdict for $15,000, upon which judgment was entered, and the company’s motion for a new trial having…