McKamey v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

STEWART, Chief Justice.

In an action in Harlan Circuit Court appellant sought to recover damages in the sum of $20,000 from appellee, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, alleging her intestate’s death was proximately caused by appellee’s negligence. This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict directed for appellee at the close of appellant’s evidence, the lower court holding appellant had failed to connect her intestate’s death with any negligent act of appellee.

*903The evidence discloses that about 9:00 p.m. on November 24, 1952, William Oscar Robbins was found lying between the…