Bias v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

DENT, PRESIDENT:

“On the 12th day of July, 1897, plaintiff’s intestate, Clara Edna Bias, an infant, about fifteen months old, had strayed away from the home of its parents, which was *351about 50 yards away, and’ gotten upon the track of the defendant, near Wilson’s Station, a flag stop between G-uy-andotte and Barboursville, at about 7 o’clock in the evening, and was struck by defendant’s local passenger train No. 13, going west, and afterwards, on the 16th, died. The train was running at the rate of between 45 and 48 miles an hour when the child was discovered on the track, about 150 to 200…