Gordon v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hannah.

Affirming.

W. H. Gordon sued the Chesapeake ,& Ohio Railway Company in the Greenup Circuit Court, to recover damages for injuries said to have been sustained as the result of the explosion of a railroad signal torpedo. Upon the trial, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.

Gordon was a section-man in the employment of appellee railroad company. His foreman was William Rat-cliff. Ratcliff and his section-crew and another section *340foreman, Bnrt Burns, and his crew, were working together. They were transporting rails, one end of…