Southern Railway v. Owen

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hannah

Affirming.

This action was instituted in the Shelby Circuit Court against the Southern Railway in Kentucky to recover damages for injuries sustained by Harry Owen in 1912, he being at that time a boy four years of age.

The first trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor in the sum of one thousand dollars, which upon appeal was reversed on the ground that the verdict was excessive. See 156 Ky., 827, 162 S. W., 110.

A second trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in plaintiff’s favor in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars; and the railway…