Legal Opinion

Blackburn v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 29, 1924Published

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robinson

Affirming.

In September, 1919, J. J. Leary, a citizen and resident of Grant county, Kentucky, was struck and seriously injured by a work train on tbe side track of tbe L. & N. Railroad Company at Zion Station. It appears that tbis track lay between tbe main track of tbe road and tbe depot, and it was necessary for passengers and tbe public to cross it in passing to and from tbe depot, and that for a number of years tbe public bad been accustomed to use tbis siding and travel upon it. Just before be was struck by tbe work train, Leary, desiring to speak to…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Missouri Pacific Railroad v. AultSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
  2. Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. North Dakota Ex Rel. LangerSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
  3. Commonwealth v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1920
  4. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. HaverlyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1922

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