McKnight's Administrator v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Couht by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

On May 21, 1913, Elden McKnight, an infant about twenty-three months of age, was run over and killed by a train of the appellee, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, in Bell county, the accident occurring some time in the early part of the forenoon. The appellant, William McKnight, the father of the infant, having qualified as administrator of the estate of the latter, filed this suit in the Bell circuit court seeking to recover from *87appellee thirty thousand (.$30,000) dollars damages, upon the charge that the killing of the appellant’s…