Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Thomas' Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

*146Leander' Thomas/twenty-one years of age, was employed and began to work for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company as a laborer in a tunnel upon its line of railroad about six o’clock on the evening of July 13, 1914. A few hours thereafter a.large rock fell upon and killed him, from a place at or about where ‘the wall and arch of the roof of the tunnel joined. :

In this action filed by his administrator a judgment was recovered against appellant for $4,000.00. The suit was originally brought under the State law, but by amendment before trial-…