Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Gollihur
Indiana Court of Appeals
Prom Posey Circuit Court; O. M. Welborn, Judge. Action by Henry H. Gollihur, as administrator of the estate of Loren G. Coker, deceased, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtComstock, C. J.
The appellee brought this action to recover damages for the death of-jiis decedent, Loren G. Coker, who was a brakeman in the employ of the appellant company, and who was killed in a collision between two freight-' trains. It is claimed in the complaint that the death of Coker was due to the negligence of the appellant Hart, who was a train dispatcher for the appellant company at the time of the accident, and that his negligence consisted in giving wrong telegraphic orders as to the movement of the trains which came into collision. The first paragraph of the complaint, after setting forth…
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