Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Lovell's Admr.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

Jeff. Lovell, an employe of the appellant company, was killed in its yard at Somerset, Kentucky, hv being crushed between two ears. His administrator brought this action under the statute to recover damages for the destruction of his life. Upon a trial before a jury the damages were assessed at $.15,000, and judgment accordingly rendered for this amount. In asking a reversal of the judgment, it is earnestly insisted that the.peremptory instruction requested by the railway company should have been given. The disposition of this question, which is…