Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Prewitt's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

Appellants, C., N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co., Earl,Rearden, and Preston. Long, sought by appeal to reverse a judgment against them for $15,000.00 for causing the death of John Prewitt, a young man twenty-four years of age. At 2:45 a. m. on October 2, 1921, young Prewitt was returning from Lexington, Kentucky, in a Ford touring-car, which he was driving, and was killed in attempting to cross the tracks of the C., N. O. & T. P. Ry. Co. in Danville, Kentucky.

On the way from Lexington he had come upon a friend (John…