Legal Opinion

Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Sickings

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 17, 1869PublishedCited by 14 opinions

CASE 1 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM WASHIUGTOH CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 17 B. Mon., 578; Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. vs. Yandell. Sedgwick on Measure of Damages, 495, 606. Am. Law Reg., Sept., 1864; Telfer vs. Northern R. R. Co. 4 Barn, dp Aid,., 30. Roscoc’s Criminal Ev., 794. 2 Kent’s Com., 560. Am. Law Reg., June, 1866; Bannon vs. R. R. Co. Redficld on Raihoays, p. 330, sec. 150. 9 Car. dp Payne, 601; Sills vs. Brown. Am. Law Reg., June, 1868; Indianapolis and Cin.

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CASE 1 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM WASHIUGTOH CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 17 B. Mon., 578; Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. vs. Yandell. Sedgwick on Measure of Damages, 495, 606. Am. Law Reg., Sept., 1864; Telfer vs. Northern R. R. Co. 4 Barn, dp Aid,., 30. Roscoc’s Criminal Ev., 794. 2 Kent’s Com., 560. Am. Law Reg., June, 1866; Bannon vs. R. R. Co. Redficld on Raihoays, p. 330, sec. 150. 9 Car. dp Payne, 601; Sills vs. Brown. Am. Law Reg., June, 1868; Indianapolis and Cin. R. R. Co. vs. Rutherford. 3 Allen, 18; Todd vs. Old Colony R. R. Co. 7 Allen, 297; Am. Law Reg., March, 1868; P. and C.…

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Williams

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad has a swatch to its Lebanon Branch near Greenwell’s Mill, which was' constructed and is mainly used for the purposes of trans-' porting lumber from the mill.

The road company switch off such cars as may be needed, and the proprietors of the mill load them with' *4their lumber, and the road company transports it to market.

The road agents had switched off two cars and securely scotched them at a safe place, when some one about the mill, and engaged in loading the switched cars, uncoupled them, and ran one so near to the main track that a leaning standard would…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Holbrook v. . the Utica and Schenectady Railroad Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1855

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad v. AndrewsCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1874
  2. Kentucky Central Railroad v. Thomas' adm'rCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1880
  3. Walsh v. Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1882
  4. Waterbury v. New York C. & H. R. R. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1883
  5. Clarke's Administrator v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1897

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