Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Stone's Administrator

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

The Stone family lived in the town of Trinity on the south bank of the Ohio river. It consisted of the deceased, Mrs. Sarah A. Stone, aged 59, her husband, aged 70, and a grown son and daughter. The town of Manchester, Ohio, is just across the river from Trinity, -and a ferry crosses the river between the two points.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company has a double line of tracks' running practically east and west through the town. The public road, after leaving the water’s edge at the ferry, runs diagonally up the side of the hill in a…