Legal Opinion
Welch v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Ohio Court of Appeals
Decided July 29, 1961No. 2629PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKerns, J.
This is an action for wrongful death, commenced in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County on March 31, 1958, by James D. Welch, as administrator of the estate of Kenneth E. Welch, deceased.
The defendant company owns certain railroad tracks which extend in a northerly and southerly direction in Montgomery County. These tracks pass over a trestle which spans the Great Miami River near the boundary of Harrison and Mad River townships.
At about noon on June 17, 1957, the plaintiff’s decedent, Kenneth E. Welch, an eight-year-old boy, was attempting to cross the trestle when struck by a…
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