Smith v. L. N.R.R. Co.

The original plaintiff in this action, while an employee of the defendant, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, was injured through an explosion of an engine, the accident occurring in the State of Kentucky. He resided at Mud Lake, Kentucky, about thirty miles from the city of Covington, Kentucky. About eight months after the accident, in the city of Cincinnati, State of Ohio, he entered into a contract with appellees whereby he employed them as his attorneys to prepare and prosecute a suit for damages against the said railroad company growing out of his personal injuries, and agreed to…