Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Lyons

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

The appellee, McKinley Lyons, a hoy under fifteen years of age, employed as a section hand by the appellant company, was thrown from a hand car on which he was riding with the section crew. The speed of the car while it was going down a heavy grade was suddenly arrested by an iron bar that fell from the car to the track, and Lyons, who was on the front end of the car working one of the motor levers, was thrown to the track and the car ran over him inflicting serious and permanent injuries. A settlement, so inadequate as to be fraudulent, was made…