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

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller—

Reversing.

On November 5th, 1913, Jemima Hunter, wife of Joseph M. Hunter, and 69 years old, was struck and killed by one of appellant’s. west bound trains while she was crossing the appellant’s railroad track at a private crossing about four miles west of Prestonsburg. *5Hunter lived in a house situated about fifty feet south of the railroad track, and about one hundred feet southwest of the crossing. The Big Sandy river runs about 250 feet north of the track and nearly parallel with it.' A footpath led from the house along the side of the railroad…