Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Warnock's Administratrix

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Logan

Beversing on appeal and affirming on cross-appeal.

On October 21, 1925, E. C. Warnock, with E. W. Bradford and Dee Wright, left Kehoe, in Carter county, driving in a Ford automobile to a place on Laurel creek, a distance of about seven miles from Kehoe, for the purpose of making a tap in the pipe line of the Cincinnati Gas Transportation Company. The automobile belonged to Wright, and he drove it. Warnock was a foreman for the Cincinnati Gas Transportation Company, in charge of that part of its pipe line extending from the Big Sandy river to Valley, in Lewis…