Jones v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 97 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The evidence shows that appellant had been a farm laborer, and when he began to work for appellee, told the foreman that he knew nothing of the business and that he would have to instruct him, which he agreed to do.
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Case 97 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The evidence shows that appellant had been a farm laborer, and when he began to work for appellee, told the foreman that he knew nothing of the business and that he would have to instruct him, which he agreed to do. Notwithstanding this, he placed this inexperienced young man at tho front end of the hand-car, a place of great danger for an inexperienced man, and gave him no instruction as to the danger or how to perform safely his duties. The danger was of a character not to be realized by an inexperienced man without warning,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant having, while engaged as an employe of appellee in operating a hand-car, been knocked from and run over by it, brought this action to recover for personal injury then received, which he states resulted from gross negligence of the section-boss, to whose orders he was at the time subject.
The alleged negligence consisted in the section-boss placing appellant at front end of the hand-car, the most dangerous position, for the purpose of working one of the levers, without informing him of the peculiar danger to which he was thereby exposed or…
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