Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Dwyer's Administratrix
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal from Boyd Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Settle
Reversing.
Richard Dwyer, who was a locomotive engineer in the employ of the appellant, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., was killed May 12,1910, at England Hill in Boyd County, Kentucky, by the derailment of a part of a train upon which he was at the time employed as such engineer. The train was a freight train, being operated by two engines, the second engine being the one of which the decedent had charge.
At the place of the accident the railroad track is located in a cut the banks of which arise in height several feet above that of a train. The accident was…
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