Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Morgan's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

William Morgan was accidentally killed on April 11, 1925, while in the employ of appellant and defendant below, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, and in which employment he had been engaged for about three months as a member of what is called in the record a “powder or blasting crew.” It consisted of three per sons, viz., decedent, plaintiff, his father, and one Aaron Napier, the latter being foreman thereof. For a month or six weeks the crew was exclusively engaged in blasting rock to make room for the construction of a second or double…