Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Asher's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

While employed as a section hand and working with a gang, of men for the appellant company in Kenton county, Eobert Asher was struck and killed by a passenger train of the company, and in this action under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act by his administrator to recover damages for his death, there was a judgment against the company for two thousand dollars, and it appeals.

The evidence shows that Eobert Asher, who was an industrious young man of good habits, 19 years old, had been working for the railroad company as a section hand for several…