Louisville & N. R. Co. v. McClish
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
DAY, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought to recover damages sustained by the wrongful death of George McClish, it being alleged that he was negligently run over by one of the trains of the defendant company. The testimon)7 tended to show that on the afternoon of February 4, 1899, the deceased left Brownsville in the direction of his home, and later in the afternoon his body was found about one mile north of Brownsville, at the foot of an embankment, near the railroad track. The injuries on his person were of such a character as to cause death. It is the claim of the plaintiff that he was…
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