Jones v. L. & N. R. Co.

Opinion of the' Court by

Morris, Commissioner

Affirming.

Grant Jones, father of Billie Jones, a seven and half year old boy,, sued appellees for damages on ac count of the boy’s death, occasioned by his falling or jumping from a coal car, property of the railroad company, while it was upon a private siding on coal company’s premises. Appeal is from a judgment for appellees under instruction of the court.

The proof shows that the railroad employees, as was the custom, on Friday August 14, 1942, the day before the accident, set in several cars on the siding which were taken by the coal company by…