Davis v. Britt

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Sampson

Affirming.

Appellee, Britt, with a companion was driving a Stearns-Knight, 8 cylinder automobile along one of the highways in Kenton county which crosses at grade a track of the L. & N. railroad, and when the car passed over the first rail of the track of the company it dropped into a rut, as appellee Britt contends, and stuck so that it could not be removed by him and his companion and those whom he called to help, and while thus stalled one of the freight trains of appellant company came along at a high rate of speed and demolished the automobile…