Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. O'Brien

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the appellee, Louis O’Brien, for $1,500.00 against the appellant, who was the defendant below, for personal injuries received by O’Brien in stepping or falling from one of appellant’s moving trains.

The accident came about in this way: On October 6th, 1913, O’Brien boarded appellant’s local passenger train at G-aither’s Station, south of Elizabethtown, and paid his fare to Dividing Eidge, a flag station about 25 miles further south. The train reached Dividing Eidge at 7:48 o’clock P. M.

O’Brien…