Trent v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Affirming.

L. C. Trent, while crossing- the tracks of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 'Company in the city of Ashland, was run upon and seriously injured by a switch engine of that company. In a suit for personal injuries resulting therefrom, brought by Trent and the indemnity com pany, which had settled with him as an employee under the Compensation Act, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and plaintiffs appeal, and urge as grounds of reversal: (1) Error of the court in formation of the jury; (2) accident or surprise in the selection of the…