Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co.

R. R. Chandler was struck and killed by defendant’s train on Currier crossing, two miles east of Paris. His administrator sued in statutory and common-law counts. The first count is based upon subsections 1 and 2 of section 1574, and sections 1575, 1576, of Shannon’s Code. The second count attributes the death of deceased to the common-law negligence of the defendant.

At the conclusion of plaintiff’s proof, the trial judge directed a verdict for" the defendant, and plaintiff appealed. His assignments of error present two questions:(1) "Whether chapter 41, Acts of 1921, amended or supplemented…