Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Cole

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Tilford

— Reversing.

Complaining that the jury should have been peremptorily instructed to find a verdict in their favor, appellants prosecute this appeal from a judgment against them for $10,000 awarded the administratrix of T. J. Cole for his death which resulted from injuries received on the night of February 7, 1936, while using a pathway over a railroad track in front of his home in the community known as “Melvin” in Floyd County, Kentucky. The train which struck him consisted of an engine and caboose eastbound from Martin to Weeksbury, to which latter point it…