Riley v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley—

Affirming.

The appellant, Marguerite Riley, was severely injured while a passenger on appellee’s train, which was wrecked, apparently for the purpose of robbery, by the action of two or more men in breaking and turning a switch and diverting it onto a side track and loosening some rails. This occurred about midnight of September 5,1925, at Knob Lick, in a hilly and sparsely settled section of Lincoln county. The train was a heavy, fast, and through one, from Louisville to Atlanta. The appellant, in company with some other young ladies, was on her way…