Huntsman v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co.

This is an appeal on questions of law, from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court of Marion county, in an action wherein the appellee herein, Fremont Huntsman, as administrator of the estate of LeRoy Huntsman, deceased, was plaintiff, and the appellant herein, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, was defendant.

The action is one for damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s decedent, claimed to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in operating, at night, one of its locomotives backward and to the .south on its northbound main track, to and over Columbia street in the city of…