Rodgers v. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co.

This was an action by the appellant for damages resulting in his personal injury, and from the negligence of the appellee.

The lower court sustained the appellee’s demurrer to the complaint, and that ruling alone is assigned as error. It was alleged that the Louisville and Jefferson-ville Bridge Company had just completed its bridge across the Ohio river, between the cities of Louisville and Jeffersonville, together with the approaches or viaducts leading to such bridge; that said bridge had not been opened to the regular public traffic, and notice had been given that it would not be so opened…