Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Padgett

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hannah

Reversing.

Alvin Padgett sued the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company, and L. E. Floyd, in the Lincoln Circuit Court, to recover damages for personal injuries received by him while in the service of said com-,. *302pany; and upon a trial of the action, the jury found a verdict in his favor in the sum of seventy-five hundred dollars; the defendants appeal.

In July, 1911, appellee was employed as a laborer by appellant company, and was one of a crew of workmen engaged in the construction of a concrete abutment in Lexington, Kentucky. Appellant,…