Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. McMillen

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

Appellee was running a pumping station at night for appellant at a point on its road where it crossed Rolling Porn river, the line between the counties of Hardin and Bullitt. He had been so engaged for about twenty months, when on the night of July 21, 1909, he passed from the pump house into a coal bin to get some coal to fire the furnace, and while stooping to shovel up the coal something hit him just below the small of the back and rendered him senseless, in which condition he remained, according to his testimony, from thirty minutes to two hours,…