Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Catron
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 51 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM KNOX CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The exception in the statute applies to the nurse in charge of an invalid or child, but not to the invalid or child, and applies to the officer in charge of the prisoner, but not to the prisoner.
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Case 51 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM KNOX CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The exception in the statute applies to the nurse in charge of an invalid or child, but not to the invalid or child, and applies to the officer in charge of the prisoner, but not to the prisoner. The officer may follow the prisoner, but the prisoner can not follow the officer into the car provided for his race. 2. But independent of any construction of that act, the railroad company had the right to assign the officer with his insane negro prisoner to such car as it deemed proper, and it was its duty to do so under the…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE WHITE
delivebed the opinio'n on? the cotjbt.
This action was begun in the Knox Circuit Court by the appellee against appellant for damages. The cause of complaint and damages alleged by-plaintiff are: That in. June, 1894, appellee was the sheriff of Knox county; that as such officer he at that time had a prisoner in Ms charge — a negro lunatic. The appellee had by proper orders and judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction been directed to take the *325negro lunatic to tbe asylum at Lexington, Ky.that while executing this order and judgment appellee bought two first-class tickets, one for…
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