Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Dixon

Opinion op the Court bt

Judge Sampson

-Reversing.

The judgment in this case for $25,000.00 for personal injury to appellee, Dixon, is assailed by the railroad -company on this appeal as unwarranted and contrary to the law because it violated no duty it owed appellee, Dixon, and therefore was guilty of no -culpable negligence, and if there was negligence on the part of the section foreman in failing to flag around the curve before the collision which brought about the injury of appellee, Dixon, the latter assumed the ri-sk of danger from such failure on the part of the section foreman and is for…