Wiley's Administrator v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Affirming.

Carrie Wiley was between 30 and 35 years of age • and resided up to the time of her death in Louisa, Ky. The record does not disclose that she had any relatives. She did occasional domestic work, but had been partially maintained at the county poor house in Lawrence county and at times was given lodging in the police headquarters of that town. The appellee and defendant below, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, maintains a track over which it operates its trains on Jefferson street in that town, which runs east and west, and is crossed at…