Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad v. Mayfield's Admr.

Opinion op the Couet by

Chief Justice Hobson

Affirming.

On July 30,1909, between 11 P. M. and 12 P. M., Norman Mayfield was killed in tbe yards of tbe Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Eailroad Company at Danville, Kentucky. He was in tbe service of tbe company firing an engine called a clam shell and used in handling coal. His father, George W. Mayfield,_ operated the engine. Shortly before midnight he, with the permission of his father, left the clam shell to go to a restaurant and get a lunch. In going to the restaurant he went across the railroad yard. At this time a live engine was…