Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Co.'s Receiver v. Montgomery
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 72. — ACTION BY ANNA MONTGOMERY AGAINST THE KENTUCKY & INDIANA BRIDGE CO.’S RECEIVERS. Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court (Common Pleas Division). From the judgment defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge 0 ’Bear
Affirming.
Appellants operate a railway and toll-highway bridge across the Ohio river connecting the cities of Louisville and New Albany. A board fence seven feet high separates the railway track from that part of the bridge used by footmen and wagons. On January 16th, 1898, appellee and a companion occupying her buggy paid the toll for passage across the bridge from Louisville. They met a heavy 'freight train, with a locomotive at each end. Appellee’s horse took fright at the noise of the train, and she claims after that fact and her peril had been…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railroad v. Goetz's adm'xCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1881
- Lamb v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
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