Fields v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

The appellant, Elijah C. Fields, instituted this suit in the Lee Circuit Court against the Louisville & Nashville-Railroad Company. The petition and two amended petitions filed by appellant, allege in substance, that about one year ago, the appellee constructed, in the “heart” of the City of Beattyville, which is a town of the fifth class, a bridge; that the bridge was twelve feet wide, with a solid floor, and that the railroad track of appellee, which passed over the bridge, was on a level grade, and at grade with the streets and houses of -the…