Central Kentucky Traction Co. v. Smedley

*599Opinion op the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner —

Reversing.

Plaintiff, George W. Smedley, suing by Ms next friend, W. M. Smedley, brought this action against the Central Kentucky Traction Company to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have resulted from defendant’s negligence. From a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for $5,000, the defendant appeals.

At the time of the accident, defendant was engaged in ballasting its tracks with crushed stone. The stone was being quarried and crushed on the farm of H. H. Jesse, a few miles east of Versailles, in Woodford County,…