Drane v. Louisville Ry. Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

The record before us discloses that on April 19, 1908, the appellant, W. R. Drane, an employee of the appellee, Louisville Railway Company, had his leg fractured when caught between two of appellee’s cars, in the operation of which he was assisting, which collided at its car barn in Louisville, Kentucky, and that, as the result of his injury, his leg had to be and was amputated.

Upon the happening of this collision and appellant’s resulting injury, the railway company had Drane hospitalized and given medical and surgical treatment, the expense of…