Klaus v. Southern Railway Co.

JANVIER, Judge.

In the experience on this Court of the author of this opinion seldom if ever has there been presented a case in which our sympathies have made so great an endeavor to dominate our judgment. But seldom if ever has a record made it so absolutely impossible to permit recovery of damages.

An alert, intelligent boy of eleven has lost his left leg by amputation between the knee and the thigh and to that extent will he handicapped for the remaining many years of his life. We, and, we hope the young boy are somewhat comforted by the fact that, in the few years which have elapsed since…