Louisville & N. R. R. v. Logsdon
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 86 — -Action by W. E. Logsdon against L. & N. R. R. Co. for Personal Injuries. — Feb. 10. appeal from hart circuit court. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals.
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Case 86 — -Action by W. E. Logsdon against L. & N. R. R. Co. for Personal Injuries. — Feb. 10. appeal from hart circuit court. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. CLASSIFICATION OF POINTS DISCUSSED. 1. Many of the remarkable averments of the petition are either positively disproved by, or fail to be supported by, the evidence. 2. The evidence substantially stated and analyzed. 3. The court erred in permitting appellee to prove rules 117a, 117b, and 203 of appellant’s book of rules, for the reason that the rules were wholly inapplicable! to and contradictory of the point on which…
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Opinion op the court by
JUDGE HOBS-ON —
Reversing.
Appellee, Logsdon, who is twentv-two years of age, was helping his father load a car with lumber at Munfordville, Ky., in April, 1901, on a side track of appellant’s road at that point. While they were in the car, loading it, a freight train pulled in on the main line about opposite to them. The engine then went up to the switch with a flat car loaded with rock, and sent it down on the side *751crack on which the car stood in which they were working. A brakeman was on the rock car, and undertook to stop it before it reached the car in which they…
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