Blackaby v. L. N. R. Co.

Affirming.

Appellant, Clarence Blackaby, was employed as a section hand by appellee, Louisville Nashville Railroad Company, and while engaged in that labor for it claims to have been injured because of its negligence. He instituted this action to recover for the injury, and upon the trial, at the conclusion of the evidence introduced for him, the trial court sustained appellee's motion for a directed verdict in its favor. From the judgment entered dismissing his petition he prosecutes this appeal.

It appears that in September, 1923, while a section crew was engaged in track repairing appellant,…