Codell Construction Co. v. Steele

Opinion of the Cotjrt by

Judge Ratliff

Affirming.

This is an action for personal injury tried before a .jury in the Perry circuit court, in which Dr. M. W. Steele recovered a judgment of $500 against the Codell Construction Company and J. A. Committo & Son.

For his cause of action Dr. Steele charged in his petition that on the 9th day of January, 1928, while riding horseback on the Hazard-Hindman highway,, then under construction by the defendants, and crossing a culvert constructed by them across the highway, the horse he was riding fell through the culvert and threw him off, his hack striking a…