Hawkins v. Louisville & Nashville Ry. Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Affirming.

On May 13,1916, tlie appellant Hawkins, who was the plaintiff below, boarded the appellee’s train at Newport about eight o’clock in the morning to go to Louisville. He entered the Pullman or chair car, and having deposited his raincoat upon a chair which he had reserved in advance, he went to the smoking compartment at the rear end of the car.

Very soon after the train had left Latonia and only a few minutes after Hawkins had entered the smoking compartment, a friend having asked him for a deck of cards which was in a pocket of his raincoat, Hawkins…