Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Jenkins

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle.

— Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Hopkins circuit court, upon a verdict awarding appellee $1,000.00 damages for personal injuries resulting, as alleged, by the servants of the appellant so negligently operating a train as to frighten his mules, attached to a wagon, and cause them to run against or over him. The accident happened near Madisonville, at a place called Reinecke, where the Reinecke Coal Mining Company, which is engaged in mining coal, has a mine sidetrack, coal tipple and other appliances necessary for use in its business, in…