Payne, Director General v. Blondell

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Reversing.

On October 28,1918, while the Lomsville & Nashville Railroad Company was, in the hands of appellant, John Barton Payne, Director General of Railroads, appellee, J. C. Blondell, an employee of the railroad company, claims to have .received an injury as a result of the negligence of appellant and his agents which permanently injured him. He sued to recover damages, for the injury. By answer appellant denied that the injury was the result of any negligence of himself or his agents and affirmatively pleaded contributory negligence and assumed…