Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mann's Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Tbe Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, which. we shall call the defendant, seeks to reverse a judgment for $8,000 recovered against it for the death of James Mann, a 13-year-old boy. Several grounds for reversal are relied on; but, in view of the conclusion to wbicb we have come, we shall not consider these, as the defendant was entitled to a directed verdict.

Assuming, but not deciding, that the evidence for the administrator was all properly admitted, this is what it shows: On the morning of May 21, 1926, the decedent was given money…