Mitchell's Administratrix v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

An east-bound freight engine of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company while passing through the yards of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, at Lex ington, came in contact with, and overturned an engine of' the latter company, which was running in the same direction on a parallel switch track, killing Ernest Mitchell,, the hostler in charge. In a suit for damages for the latter’s death brought by the administratrix of his estate-against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company and. Bert McClure, its engineer, the jury returned a verdict:…