Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hosea

This action is for the death of appellee’s decedent, who was a resident of this State, and who died in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, of injuries there received in coupling cars while in the service of appellant as a switch-man, and leaving surviving him appellee, his widow, and one child.

The complaint, pleading the Kentucky statute, commonly known as “Lord Campbell’s Act,” and which in all material respects is similar to ours upon the same subject, is in two paragraphs. Each paragraph rests upon section 1 of the act of 1893, approved March 4, 1893 (Acts 1893, p. 294), section 7083 Burns…