Davis v. Burns' Administratrix

*705Opinion op the Court bt

Commissioner Sandidge — •

Reversing.

A jury of the Bourbon circuit court returned a $35,000.00 verdict in favor of Robbie Bums’ Administratrix against appellant, Director General of Railroads, in an action for the death of her intestate. The action was brought under the federal Employers’ Liability Act. The petition aptly pleaded a cause of action under that act, charging her intestate’s injury and death, the negligence of appellant and his agents, and charging that the latter was the proximate cause of the former. The answer, by traverse, put in issue all the averments…