Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Ward's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

On tlie 13tli of July, 1907, Cloetine Ward, a young’ lady of fifteen and one-lialf years of age was struck and ■killed by one of the Chesapeake & Ohio- Railway Company’s trains at what is known as the Broadway street .crossing in the city of Catlettsburg.; Her father, George W. Ward, qualified as her administrator and brought .this action against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company of Kentucky, Robert Brooks, its engineer, and *734Clyde McG-ee, to recover damages for her death. The jury returned a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for…