Curd's Administratrix v. Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Affirming.

This action was brought by L. P. Curd’s administratrix to recover damages from appellee, the defend-. *105ant below, for negligently causing tbe death of said Curd; and the trial court having directed a verdict for the defendant at the close of the evidence, the plaintiff appeals.

Curd was struck by one of appellee’s trains on December 31st, 1912, and died on February 12th, 1913. He was 68 years old, and, for some time before the accident, he had been employed at a rock crusher located in the town of High Bridge, on the north side of the…