Pugh v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

This is an action instituted by appellant, as administrator of the estate of George W. Lichlyter, deceased, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of said decedent on January 31, 1911, while at work as a freight brakeman in the employ of appellee. On issues presented by appellee’s general denial to the first and second paragraphs of amended complaint, the cause was submitted to a jury, which, at the close of appellant’s evidence, returned a general verdict for appellee. This verdict appears to have been based on appellee’s motion for a peremptory instruction in its favor, but…