Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Stayton's Administrator

OPINION op the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing.

Richard Stay ton was, in November, 1912, employed by appellant as a member of a bridge painting crew, and on the 22nd of November, 1912, that crew was paint*761ing an iron overhead bridge on appellant’s line in Nelson County.

The crew consisted of the foreman, Clapham and Stayton, Basham, Unseld, and Troutman. The workmen under the superivsion of Clapham were painting the outside of this iron bridge, Stayton and Basham being on the staging or scaffold on one side of the bridge, and Unseld and Troutman on a similar structure on the other side, and the…