Coleman's Adm'r v. Chesapeake & O. R.

Opinion oe the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

The sole question on this appeal is whether the trial court, at the conclusion of the evidence offered by appellant, properly directed a verdict in favor of appellees.

On July 30, 1929, George Coleman was struck and instantly killed by a west-bound Chesapeake & Ohio passenger train just east of Harold Station, in Floyd county. East of the place of the accident -there' is a curve in the track and also a sloping hillside. Frank Marrs, who ran the pumping station, which is east of Harold Station, testified that shortly before the accident Coleman was…