Louisville Nashville R.R. Co. v. Chambers

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, hereinafter called defendant, has appealed from a judgment rendered against it in the circuit court of Sumner county for the sum of $1500. The suit was originally brought by J. A. Chambers, as damages for personal injuries sustained by him by reason of his team taking fright at a passing freight train in the town of Gallatin, Tennessee, throwing him from his wagon and breaking his leg. After the institution of the suit the plaintiff died, not from the injuries resulting from falling from his wagon, but from other causes and the cause was revived in the…