Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Walker's Administrator

OPINION of the Court by

Judge Miller

Reversing.

This action was brought by James Walker’s administrator under the provisions of the act of Congress of April 22, 1908, known as the Employers’ Liability Act, to recover damages for negligently causing the death of Walker while in the service of the appellant, as a,brakeman. The trial resulted in a judgment for $12,000.00, which the jury apportioned equally between the widow and the two infant children of Walker. The company appeals.

Walker was twenty-nine years old and prior to September 4, 1912, he had worked, first as a farmer, and later in a…