Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Bainbridge

This was an action for damages instituted by the administrators for the wrongful death of their intestate, John W. Bainbridge, who was run over and killed by a street car owned by the defendant company.

The declaration averred that the plaintiffs’ intestate was crossing a street intersection at a point designated for passengers to board the street car, on the Gallatin road at the intersection of Chesterfield avenue; that he had waited until the street car was within reasonable distance, moving slowly, and then started to walk across the track in front of it; that defendant’s motorman was not…