Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Goodwin

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

' This is the second appeal of this case. The opinion on the first appeal appears in 140 Ky., 837, and, as it contains an elaborate statement of the facts with respect to the manner in which appellee received the injuries for which he recovered damages in the court below, only a partial review of them will now he necessary.

It appears that appellee was operating an air hoist in appellant’s machine shop and while so engaged an iron chain, connecting the end of a piston rod with an axle and two car wheels, broke, striking him in the face and head,…