Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Hall's Admr.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn —

Affirming.

This is an appeal from the Boyd Circuit Court rendered at its March term, 1911, in favor of appellee, for the sum of $5,000.00. The action was instituted against the railway company and one of its engineers, Ed Brewer, for the alleged negligent killing of David Hall, hy one of the railway company’s fast passenger trains near Ashland, Ky-, on February 17, 1906. The scene of the accident was at a public crossing which marks the western corporation boundary of the city of Ashland. At the time of his death Hall was driving a horse hitched to a spring…