Cumberland Railroad v. Walton

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle.

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict awarding the appellee, William Walton, $12,000.00 damages for injuries sustained hy being run over by an engine and caboose operated on the track of the appellant, Cumberland Railroad Company, in its switch yards at Artemus, this State. In-view of the nature and extent of the injuries sustained by appellee, the amount recovered is not unreasonable, if the recovery was authorized at all.

*373The appellant’s railroad lies wholly in Knox County, extends from Artemus, a village four miles from…