Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Hoskins' Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

K. S. Hoskins, a minister, was run over and killed by appellant’s freight engine at a railroad crossing in the town of Olive Hill, Carter County. This appeal is from a $9,000 verdict and judgment rendered in the lower court' in favor of his administrator.

The accident occurred on the 19th of May, 1913, about half past one o’clock in the afternoon. He was killed on a spur track at a street or road crossing. This spur track is about 1,000 feet long and goes from the main line up to the Harbison & Walker brick plant. The grade is steep and there is a…