Ford v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

This is an action brought under the Federal Employers ’ Liability Act by Flossie Ford, administratrix of the estate of Bert F. Ford, who was run over and killed by appellant’s freight train on which he was head brakeman on November 15, 1940, at Pinesville, Kentucky. The jury was required to find that the engineer negligently caused the train to move at an excessive rate of speed at the time when deceased was preparing to alight therefrom, and at the time when, under the circumstances and conditions prevailing, the engine and train should have been stopped or its speed so slackened as to…