Cumberland Railroad v. Girdner

*762Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

These two cases were tried separately below, and, involving the same facts, are heard together here, by agreement.

On the 12th day of February, 1915, appellee, John Frank Girdner, then eight years of- age, was run over by a mixed passenger and freight train of appellant, at a point about forty feet north of its passenger depot, at the town of Warren, Knox county, Kentucky, and his right leg so crushed it had to be amputated above the knee. Alleging that the accident was the result of appellant’s negligence in the operation of the train, the boy and…