Chesapeake Ohio Railway Company v. Kennard

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On February 10, 1925, tbe appellee and plaintiff below, Sam Kennard, wbo was 46 years of age, was a member of a carpenter’s crew working for tbe appellant and defendant below, Chesapeake & Obio Bailway Company. At tbe time of tbe accident of wbicb be complains in tbis case be and a fellow workman by tbe name of Dean were engaged in riveting steel or iron plates to tbe girders of a portion of tbe railroad bridge at Covington ■across tbe Obio river, and tbey were stationed on one of tbe double tracks of the appellant laid on that bridge. Tbe work was…