Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Hooker

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Reversing.

Andrew Hooker brought this action by his mother, as next friend, on April 27, 1935, in the Knox circuit court, to recover damages for Ms alleged wrongful ejectment from appellant’s train.

The record discloses that upon the occasion in evidence the infant, Andrew Hooker, boarded the appellant’s train at Heidrick, Ky., with the intention of riding to the nearby town or station of Rodonald.

The facts are, according to the plaintiff’s testimony as to .his boarding the train and his later ejectment therefrom, as follows:

“I got on the train and when I got…