Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Harmon's Administrator

Opinion' op the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

Tills action was instituted, under the Federal Employers ’ Liability Act, by the administrator of the estate of Mack Harmon, deceased, against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company to recover the damages suffered by the estate of Harmon on account of his death, which it was alleged was caused by the negligence of the employees of the appellant, railroad company. A+ the time of his death, the decedent was riding in the caboose of a freight train of the appellant, which was called train No. 81, and consisted of forty-eight cars and was proceeding from…