Stephenson's Administratrix v. Sharp's Executors

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

On the morning of February 22, 1926, an automobile owned and driven by Llewellyn Sharp was struck by a train of the appellee Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company at a grade crossing on a public road known as the Russell Cave pike about a mile north of the city limits of Lexington. At the time of the accident Edwin A. Stephenson, a young man 22 years of age, was riding in the automobile as Sharp’s guest. Both Sharp and Stephenson were killed instantly.

Stephenson’s administratrix brought this action in the Fayette circuit court against the appellees…