Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Crum

This is a proceeding by notice of motion, by the defendants in error (hereinafter called plaintiffs) against the plaintiff in error (hereinafter called defendant), to recover damages for the alleged injury to an automobile truck.

Upon the trial of the case a verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs. Upon this verdict judgment was entered by the trial court, which we are asked to review.

On the day of the collision between the truck and the locomotive of the defendant, the truck was being driven by one J. H. Rankin, an employee of the plaintiffs. Rankin, on the day of the accident, was…