Louisville N. R. Co. v. Turner

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

Hiram Turner was released from jail in the morning of February 9,1940, and was killed that afternoon by a train while walking in the railroad yards at Evarts. The next day at the undertaking establishment in Harlan, where his body lay, Eebecca Turner, his purported widow, agreed with an agent of the railroad company to accept $200 in satisfaction of any claim that might be raised on account of his death, saying, according to the evidence, that all she wanted was for her husband to be put away nicely. While…